SHELDON LAKE EL

SHELDON LAKE EL, a mid-tier K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of SHELDON ISD, hosts 622 students, covering grades 1 through 5.

SHELDON LAKE EL is one of 14 schools operated by SHELDON ISD, a district that educates 10,946 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SHELDON LAKE EL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%; the rest looks like 34% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SHELDON LAKE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. SHELDON LAKE EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: C E KING H S, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SHELDON LAKE EL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 32.6%.

SHELDON LAKE EL operates from an outer-ring location.

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