THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST

THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST is a tight-knit K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within THE VARNETT PUBLIC SCHOOL. The school educates 275 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

THE VARNETT PUBLIC SCHOOL runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,159 students. THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST is one of those campuses.

Demographically, THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST reports that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 6% Black, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 73% of students at THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate 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), THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST is one campus in the mix.

HARRIS R P 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. On composite proficiency, THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. THE VARNETT SCHOOL - EAST's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 344 (now 275). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 12% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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