WEST MEMORIAL EL

WEST MEMORIAL EL operates as a sprawling K-5 school in KATY, Texas, run under KATY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 970 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 87% larger than typical.

KATY ISD runs 78 schools in total, collectively educating 96,111 students. WEST MEMORIAL EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, WEST MEMORIAL EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 24% Black, 14% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WEST MEMORIAL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST MEMORIAL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. WEST MEMORIAL EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

WEST MEMORIAL J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEST MEMORIAL EL. On composite proficiency, WEST MEMORIAL EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

WEST MEMORIAL EL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. WEST MEMORIAL EL's enrollment has climbed 18% since 2018, when it stood at 822 (now 970). White enrollment moved from 36% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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