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Enrollment
703
Elementary
DISTRICT 632 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GALENA PARK ISD·NCES 482025011866
Sam Houston Elementary School
4101 E SAM HOUSTON PKWY N, HOUSTON, TX 77015 · (832) 386-4430 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL703 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% of Texas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
661 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 60 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 119 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
51.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +19.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
53.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +15.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 15 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 23.0% | 28.0% | 20.0% | 29.0% |
| Mathematics | 24.0% | 29.0% | 23.0% | 24.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 51.0% | 53.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 45.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 54.0% |
| 2021-22 | 52.0% | 48.0% |
| 2020-21 | 32.0% | 38.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sam Houston Elementary School
Sam Houston Elementary School's state test result (44.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Houston Elementary School this school | 703 | 94.0% | 44.1% |
| IDEA Riverview Academy BROWNSVILLE | 714 | 94.3% | 54.5% |
| IDEA North Mission Academy MISSION | 719 | 92.5% | 42.6% |
| Rogers Academy SAN ANTONIO | 756 | 93.1% | 22.4% |
| Carroll T Welch Elementary School EL PASO | 676 | 94.1% | 33.8% |
| Charles Graebner Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 651 | 93.7% | 17.8% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sam Houston Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #2,064 of 4,401 | #266 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,489 of 4,466 ▲ 216 | #189 of 625 ▲ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #2,385 of 4,466 ▼ 372 | #314 of 625 ▼ 55 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #2,817 of 3,998 | #441 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 703 | #900 of 4,938 | #230 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #2,262 of 4,622 | #302 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.7% | #4,074 of 4,628 | #605 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.0% | #628 of 4,789 | #162 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #1,514 of 2,838 | #266 of 441 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
703
-34 (-5%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 849
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 703 | 47.5 | 14.8:1 | 94% (661) |
| 2023-24 | 740 | 46.4 | 16.0:1 | 94% (692) |
| 2022-23 | 708 | 46.8 | 15.1:1 | 92% (653) |
| 2020-21 | 737 | 48 | 15.3:1 | 94% (691) |
| 2017-18 | 837 | 49 | 17.1:1 | 88% (734) |
| 2015-16 | 869 | 49 | 17.7:1 | 92% (800) |
| 2010-11 | 849 | 57 | 14.9:1 | 93% (791) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sam Houston Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (837 to 703); teachers down 3% (49 to 47.5).
About Sam Houston Elementary School
Sam Houston Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in HOUSTON, Texas. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 703 students. That is 35% bigger than the average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
GALENA PARK ISD has 26 schools; together they serve 20,862 students.
Hispanic students are 94% of those enrolled at Sam Houston Elementary School. The remaining shares are 3% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Harris County's population at about 44%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 11, compared with 70 nationally.
Sam Houston Elementary School lists 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.8 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 94% of the student body. That is 24 points above the 70% average for public schools in Harris County.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Sam Houston Elementary School outscored 63%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Sam Houston Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.1%, compared with a predicted 33.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Harris County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $74,983 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Harris County number 1,205, with about 886,911 students.
North Shore Elementary School sits about 0.6 miles from Sam Houston Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Sam Houston Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Sam Houston Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 5% across 4 years, from 737 in 2020-21 to 703 in 2024-25.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GALENA PARK ISD
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Galena Park High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- North Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,299 students
- Cobb 6th Grade CampusMiddle · 991 students
- North Shore Elementary SchoolElementary · 965 students
- Galena Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 896 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Other Sam Houston Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 2 states are named Sam Houston Elementary. Sam Houston Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 10.
- Sam Houston Elementary SchoolWESLACO, TX · 761 students
- Sam Houston Elementary SchoolMARSHALL, TX · 536 students
- Sam Houston Elementary SchoolBRYAN, TX · 494 students
- Sam Houston Elementary SchoolLA FERIA, TX · 456 students
- Sam Houston Elementary SchoolODESSA, TX · 450 students
Nearby schools
- North Shore Elementary School0.6 mi · 965
- De Zavala Elementary School1.1 mi · 634
- Cloverleaf Elementary School1.1 mi · 821
- Accelerated Center for Education (ace)1.2 mi · 230
- B H Hamblen Elementary School1.2 mi · 886
- McMullan Elementary School1.4 mi · 482
Frequently asked questions
About Sam Houston Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Sam Houston Elementary School?
Sam Houston Elementary School enrolls approximately 703 students in grades PK-05.
Is Sam Houston Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sam Houston Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Sam Houston Elementary School have?
Sam Houston Elementary School employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
How diverse is Sam Houston Elementary School?
Sam Houston Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 94% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Sam Houston Elementary School in?
Sam Houston Elementary School is part of GALENA PARK ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.