SOUTH HOUSTON EL

SOUTH HOUSTON EL is one of the small elementary-level communitys in SO HOUSTON, Texas, part of PASADENA ISD, with 422 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

SOUTH HOUSTON EL is one of 67 schools operated by PASADENA ISD, a district that works with 46,491 students overall.

On demographics, SOUTH HOUSTON EL lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SOUTH HOUSTON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH HOUSTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 31.2%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTH HOUSTON EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: MATTHYS EL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTH HOUSTON EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 35%: 653 students in 2018 compared to 422 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 96% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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