SAMUEL HOUSTON EL

Set in HUNTSVILLE, Texas, SAMUEL HOUSTON EL is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, overseen by HUNTSVILLE ISD. It instructs 760 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SAMUEL HOUSTON EL sits 46% larger than that benchmark.

Within HUNTSVILLE ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 12,092 students, SAMUEL HOUSTON EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SAMUEL HOUSTON EL lists that the largest single group is Black at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 34% Hispanic, 24% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Walker County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Walker County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SAMUEL HOUSTON EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.4%; this one comes in at 18.5%, -19.9 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Walker County shows median household income runs about $52,324, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SAMUEL HOUSTON EL is one of 18 public schools in Walker County (combined enrollment of about 13,655 students).

The closest other public school is PREMIER H S OF HUNTSVILLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SAMUEL HOUSTON EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SAMUEL HOUSTON EL at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAMUEL HOUSTON EL has increased 44%, going from 529 students in 2018 to 760 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 16% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 26.7:1 today.

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