SHELDON EL

As a mid-sized elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, SHELDON EL teaches 585 students from grades 1 through 5, one of the schools within SHELDON ISD.

Within SHELDON ISD, which oversees 14 schools and 10,946 students, SHELDON EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SHELDON EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder reads as 17% Black, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SHELDON EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SHELDON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SHELDON EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SHELDON EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHELDON EL has shrank 19%, going from 725 students in 2018 to 585 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 8% to 17%.

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