SMITH EL

SMITH EL is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD, with 730 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 41% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

SMITH EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that caters to 176,727 students overall.

On demographics, SMITH EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder breaks down as 9% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at SMITH 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 somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SMITH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SMITH EL is one.

SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS VISUAL & PERF ARTS ACAD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SMITH EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. SMITH EL's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 879 (now 730). The Black share of enrollment declined from 20% to 9% over that span.

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