SOUTH HOUSTON INT

SOUTH HOUSTON INT operates as a modestly sized 6-8 campus in SO HOUSTON, Texas, operated by PASADENA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 509 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 643.

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

Demographically, SOUTH HOUSTON INT logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Black, 4% White. 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, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at SOUTH HOUSTON INT 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 noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTH HOUSTON INT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 39.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. SOUTH HOUSTON INT is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

MATTHYS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTH HOUSTON INT. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTH HOUSTON INT ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.4%.

SOUTH HOUSTON INT operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 30%: 725 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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