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Enrollment
584
Elementary
DISTRICT 682 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUMBLE ISD·NCES 482391004620
Shadow Forest Elementary School
2300 MILLS BRANCH DR, KINGWOOD, TX 77345 · (281) 641-2600 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL584 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
117 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 3 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from HUMBLE ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
77.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +18.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
67.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +8.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 40.0% | 37.0% | 13.0% | 10.0% |
| Mathematics | 35.0% | 32.0% | 22.0% | 11.0% |
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 | 77.0% | 67.0% |
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 71.0% | 77.0% |
| 2021-22 | 58.0% | 42.0% |
| 2020-21 | 59.0% | 59.0% |
% 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
58.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Shadow Forest Elementary School
Shadow Forest Elementary School's state test result (58.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Forest Elementary School this school | 584 | 20.0% | 58.8% |
| I W and Eleanor Hyde Elementary School LEAGUE CITY | 600 | 23.8% | 59.5% |
| Darwin L Gilmore Elementary School LEAGUE CITY | 676 | 19.5% | 65.6% |
| Cypress Elementary School CEDAR PARK | 506 | 18.2% | 54.6% |
| W A Porter Elementary School HURST | 538 | 16.9% | 66.8% |
| Arapaho Classical Magnet RICHARDSON | 615 | 18.7% | 74.9% |
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 Shadow Forest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #829 of 4,401 | #93 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #541 of 4,466 ▲ 62 | #57 of 625 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #382 of 4,466 ▲ 253 | #47 of 625 ▲ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #975 of 3,998 | #129 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 584 | #1,736 of 4,938 | #365 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #3,244 of 4,622 | #431 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.7% | #1,853 of 4,628 | #241 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.0% | #4,432 of 4,789 | #643 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #2,632 of 2,838 | #413 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
584
-21 (-3%) vs 2020
-14% since 2000-01, when it was 678
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 584 | 36.6 | 15.9:1 | 20% (117) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 38.7 | 16.4:1 | 20% (125) |
| 2022-23 | 626 | 38.1 | 16.4:1 | 17% (105) |
| 2020-21 | 605 | 39 | 15.5:1 | 11% (67) |
| 2017-18 | 601 | 36.7 | 16.4:1 | 5% (30) |
| 2015-16 | 601 | 35 | 17.2:1 | 4% (27) |
| 2010-11 | 606 | 32 | 18.9:1 | 3% (21) |
| 2000-01 | 678 | 43 | 15.8:1 | 5% (33) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shadow Forest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (601 to 584); teachers unchanged (36.7 to 36.6).
About Shadow Forest Elementary School
The public elementary school Shadow Forest Elementary School is located in KINGWOOD, Texas. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 584 students.
HUMBLE ISD counts 50 schools and 48,502 students, including Shadow Forest Elementary School.
Federal enrollment data show Shadow Forest Elementary School is 62% White. The next largest groups are 23% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. The school's White share is 27 points above the 34% share among Harris County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.
Classroom staffing at Shadow Forest Elementary School totals 36.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Shadow Forest Elementary School is about 20%. On average, public schools in Harris County report 70%.
In Texas, Shadow Forest Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 58.8% actual against a predicted 65.1%.
In Harris County, home to about 4,838,303 people, median household income comes to about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. There are 1,205 public schools in the county, enrolling about 886,911, Shadow Forest Elementary School among them.
Among nearby public schools, Riverwood Middle School is closest at about 0.8 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Shadow Forest Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 3% across 4 years, from 605 in 2020-21 to 584 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 HUMBLE ISD
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Atascocita High SchoolHigh · 3,696 students
- Humble High SchoolHigh · 2,960 students
- Kingwood High SchoolHigh · 2,877 students
- Kingwood Park High SchoolHigh · 1,884 students
- West Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,486 students
Other schools in KINGWOOD
- Kingwood High SchoolHigh · 2,877 students
- Kingwood Park High SchoolHigh · 1,884 students
- West Fork High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Riverwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,161 students
- Creekwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,144 students
- Kingwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
Nearby schools
- Riverwood Middle School0.8 mi · 1,161
- Deerwood Elementary School1.0 mi · 641
- Hidden Hollow Elementary School1.2 mi · 433
- Greentree Elementary School1.3 mi · 706
- Willow Creek Elementary School1.4 mi · 581
- Creekwood Middle School1.6 mi · 1,144
Frequently asked questions
About Shadow Forest Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Shadow Forest Elementary School?
Shadow Forest Elementary School enrolls approximately 584 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Shadow Forest Elementary School serve?
Shadow Forest Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Shadow Forest Elementary School?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Shadow Forest Elementary School.
How diverse is Shadow Forest Elementary School?
Shadow Forest Elementary School reports a student body of 62% White, 23% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Shadow Forest Elementary School?
Shadow Forest Elementary School is overseen by HUMBLE ISD in Harris County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.