SPENCE EL

SPENCE EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of ALDINE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 686 students spanning grades 1 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 32% larger than typical.

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

Demographically, SPENCE EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 26% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 43 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. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SPENCE EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.2%; SPENCE EL posts 19.3%, -15.9 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SPENCE EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

The closest other public school is PLUMMER MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SPENCE EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

SPENCE EL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 16%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 686 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 36% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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