TIMBER CREEK EL

TIMBER CREEK EL operates as a big elementary campus in THE WOODLANDS, Texas, overseen by TOMBALL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 970 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 87% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within TOMBALL ISD, which oversees 23 schools and 22,913 students, TIMBER CREEK EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, TIMBER CREEK EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 40% White, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Harris County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TIMBER CREEK EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 13% of students at TIMBER CREEK EL 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, TIMBER CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.2%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +6.6 points.

In the broader community, Harris County reports that median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), TIMBER CREEK EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ISCHOOL-CREEKSIDE, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TIMBER CREEK EL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 72.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TIMBER CREEK EL has expanded 88%, going from 517 students in 2018 to 970 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 56% to 40% over that span.

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