SMITH EL

SMITH EL is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under ALDINE ISD, hosting 553 students in grades 1 through 5.

ALDINE ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 56,419 students; SMITH EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, SMITH EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder breaks down as 16% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SMITH EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SMITH EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.3%; SMITH EL posts 17.9%, -21.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. SMITH EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: HOFFMAN MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SMITH EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SMITH EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SMITH EL's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 574 (now 553). Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.