TAVOLA EL

Located at 18885 WINDING SUMMIT DR, in NEW CANEY, Texas, TAVOLA EL is a high-enrollment primary school that hosts 859 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under NEW CANEY ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so TAVOLA EL sits 66% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 20 schools in NEW CANEY ISD (19,420 students total), TAVOLA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, TAVOLA EL lists that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 25% White, 19% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Montgomery County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, TAVOLA EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.3%; actual is 28.5%, a gap of -19.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household earnings sit near $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), TAVOLA EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NEW CANEY EL, around 1.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TAVOLA EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 68%: 511 students in 2018 compared to 859 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 4% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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