TOUGH EL

TOUGH EL is an elementary campus of heavily attended scale in THE WOODLANDS, Texas, part of CONROE ISD, instructing 988 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so TOUGH EL sits 90% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 66 schools in CONROE ISD (72,914 students total), TOUGH EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, TOUGH EL reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TOUGH EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 81.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. TOUGH EL is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).

DERETCHIN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TOUGH EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TOUGH EL has expanded 11%, going from 889 students in 2018 to 988 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 47% across the same window.

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