WESLEY EL

Located at 800 DILLARD ST, in HOUSTON, Texas, WESLEY EL is a cozy K-5 school that works with 291 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by HOUSTON ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 44% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

WESLEY EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that teaches 176,727 students overall.

Demographically, WESLEY EL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, WESLEY EL reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WESLEY EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESLEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 19.6%, a residual of -10.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), WESLEY EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WILLIAMS MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESLEY EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 19% to 30% over that span.

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