WAINWRIGHT EL

WAINWRIGHT EL operates as a modestly sized elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 382 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WAINWRIGHT EL sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

WAINWRIGHT EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that works with 176,727 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WAINWRIGHT EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 21% Black, 9% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, WAINWRIGHT EL shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WAINWRIGHT EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WAINWRIGHT EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 41.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put 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%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), WAINWRIGHT EL is one campus in the mix.

SCARBOROUGH H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WAINWRIGHT EL. On composite proficiency, WAINWRIGHT EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 79% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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