SUTTON EL

As a roomy elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, SUTTON EL hosts 833 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by HOUSTON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SUTTON EL sits 61% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 273 schools in HOUSTON ISD (176,727 students total), SUTTON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SUTTON EL logs that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 7% Black, 5% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, SUTTON EL records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SUTTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. SUTTON EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

The closest other public school is LONG ACADEMY, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUTTON EL. On composite proficiency, SUTTON EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

SUTTON EL operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 1,103 students in 2018 compared to 833 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 75% to 84% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, members of the SUTTON EL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.