STEPHENS EL

Located at 2402 ALDINE MAIL ROUTE RD, in HOUSTON, Texas, STEPHENS EL is a mid-tier elementary school that caters to 517 students (grades 1 through 5), overseen by ALDINE ISD.

Within ALDINE ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 56,419 students, STEPHENS EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STEPHENS EL logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, STEPHENS EL reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at STEPHENS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STEPHENS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.2%; this one delivers 33.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), STEPHENS EL is one campus in the mix.

AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEPHENS EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STEPHENS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.8%.

STEPHENS EL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. STEPHENS EL's enrollment has edged down 43% since 2018, when it stood at 908 (now 517).

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.