SPRING SHADOWS EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, SPRING SHADOWS EL is an average-sized elementary campus, part of SPRING BRANCH ISD. It caters to 532 students across grades K through 5.

SPRING BRANCH ISD runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 33,793 students. SPRING SHADOWS EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SPRING SHADOWS EL reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 12% Black, 4% 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 reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at SPRING SHADOWS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SPRING SHADOWS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.7%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Across the wider county, Harris County reports that 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. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), SPRING SHADOWS EL is one campus in the mix.

NORTHBROOK H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SPRING SHADOWS EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.6%.

SPRING SHADOWS EL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 6-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 695 students in 2018 compared to 532 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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