SHEARN EL

As an average-sized elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, SHEARN EL serves 470 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of HOUSTON ISD.

HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. SHEARN EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SHEARN EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 28% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, SHEARN EL logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SHEARN EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.3%; this one comes in at 17.6%, -14.7 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. SHEARN EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: HARMONY SCHOOL OF INGENUITY-HOUSTON, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SHEARN EL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

SHEARN EL operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHEARN EL has edged down 28%, going from 651 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 21% to 28% over that span.

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