SST WILLOWCREEK

SST WILLOWCREEK, a tiny primary school in SPRING, Texas, run under SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, enrolls 186 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SST WILLOWCREEK sits 64% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (5,602 students total), SST WILLOWCREEK accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SST WILLOWCREEK reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%); the rest breaks down as 9% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SST WILLOWCREEK higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at SST WILLOWCREEK qualify 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), SST WILLOWCREEK is one campus in the mix.

SCHULTZ EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. SST WILLOWCREEK operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. SST WILLOWCREEK's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 195 (now 186). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 35% to 89%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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