SHADOW FOREST EL

SHADOW FOREST EL is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in KINGWOOD, Texas, overseen by HUMBLE ISD, with 584 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 50 schools in HUMBLE ISD (48,502 students total), SHADOW FOREST EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SHADOW FOREST EL logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, SHADOW FOREST EL lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SHADOW FOREST EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 20% of students at SHADOW FOREST EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, SHADOW FOREST EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 52.1%, a residual of -13.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. SHADOW FOREST EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: RIVERWOOD MIDDLE, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SHADOW FOREST EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.

SHADOW FOREST EL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 584 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 75% to 62%.

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