SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL

SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in MIDLAND, Texas, one of the schools within MIDLAND ISD, instructing 481 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 40 schools in MIDLAND ISD (29,651 students total), SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL shows that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 14% White, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.

In terms of school funding signals, About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Midland County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.0%; this one delivers 41.7%.

In the area at large, Midland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,874 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Midland County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students), SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SAN JACINTO J H, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site. SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAM HOUSTON COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY EL has edged up 4%, going from 464 students in 2018 to 481 in 2025.

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