VALLEY OAKS EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, VALLEY OAKS EL is a heavily attended elementary-level community, run under SPRING BRANCH ISD. It serves 894 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so VALLEY OAKS EL sits 72% bigger than that benchmark.

Within SPRING BRANCH ISD, which oversees 46 schools and 33,793 students, VALLEY OAKS EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, VALLEY OAKS EL lists that White students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 34% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, VALLEY OAKS EL has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 9% of students at VALLEY OAKS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VALLEY OAKS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.9%, the actual is 82.7%, a residual of +12.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which VALLEY OAKS EL is one.

THE BEAR BLVD SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VALLEY OAKS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VALLEY OAKS EL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 51.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VALLEY OAKS EL has climbed 33%, going from 670 students in 2018 to 894 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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