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What's the one class at WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY every student should take?
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Enrollment
715
Elementary
DISTRICT 515 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON ISD·NCES 482364002610
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy
900 W GRAY ST, HOUSTON, TX 77019 · (713) 535-3771 · Harris County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL715 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Texas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
280 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 68 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 38 | 5% |
| Grade 8 | 43 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 107% larger than its 8th grade class (43).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy→Gregory-Lincoln Ed Center
Based on published attendance-zone data from HOUSTON ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
72.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +24.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
61.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +23.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 23 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 45.0% | 27.0% | 14.0% | 14.0% |
| Mathematics | 33.0% | 28.0% | 21.0% | 18.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 72.0% | 61.0% |
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.0% | 59.0% |
| 2021-22 | 62.0% | 65.0% |
| 2020-21 | 48.0% | 38.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy's state test result (62.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy this school | 715 | 39.2% | 62.0% |
| IDEA Yukon Academy ODESSA | 736 | 38.3% | 40.7% |
| Lieck Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 631 | 39.6% | 49.4% |
| Behlau Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 623 | 37.9% | 41.1% |
| Franklin Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 676 | 36.1% | 47.4% |
| Langley Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 717 | 34.6% | 51.3% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #657 of 4,401 | #68 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #882 of 4,466 ▲ 52 | #106 of 625 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #615 of 4,466 ▲ 230 | #65 of 625 ▲ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.0pp | #2,278 of 3,998 | #353 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 715 | #823 of 4,938 | #216 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #4,078 of 4,622 | #567 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.1% | #2,572 of 4,628 | #354 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.2% | #3,966 of 4,789 | #601 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +38.3% | #176 of 1,307 | #14 of 148 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
715
+105 (+17%) vs 2020
+77% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 17.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 715 | 40.9 | 17.5:1 | 39% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 38.7 | 16.8:1 | 51% (329) |
| 2022-23 | 627 | 38.8 | 16.2:1 | 45% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 610 | 35 | 17.4:1 | 43% (261) |
| 2017-18 | 517 | 28.7 | 18.0:1 | 43% (221) |
| 2015-16 | 491 | 27 | 18.2:1 | 47% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 24 | 17.7:1 | 52% (220) |
| 2000-01 | 338 | 19 | 17.8:1 | 88% (299) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 25 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy.
Since 2017-18: students up 38% (517 to 715); teachers up 43% (28.7 to 40.9).
About Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy
The public elementary school Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is located in HOUSTON, Texas. Enrollment stands at 715 students, covering pre-K through 8. It has 38% more students than the average for elementary schools in Texas (about 519).
HOUSTON ISD is responsible for 273 schools, Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy included, with 176,727 students in all.
The student body at Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is 70% Hispanic. The school is also 16% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 44%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 48%.
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy has 40.9 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average ratio is 15.1:1. The school has 39% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Harris County is 31 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy lands at A-, ahead of 80% of Texas public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 62.0% actual against 57.0% predicted.
For Harris County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $74,983 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Public schools in Harris County number 1,205, with about 886,911 students.
The closest school to Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is Carnegie Vanguard High School, located about 0.3 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy. On proficiency, Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is behind the 64.8% nearby average, ranking 5th of 8.
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a gain of 105 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
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- Carnegie Vanguard High School0.3 mi · 855
- Gregory-Lincoln Ed Center0.4 mi · 502
- Ella J Baker Montessori School0.7 mi · 610
- Arabic Immersion Magnet School1.2 mi · 609
- Lanier Middle School1.2 mi · 1,485
- Hcc Life Skills Program1.5 mi · 69
Frequently asked questions
About Wharton K-8 Dual Language AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy?
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy enrolls approximately 715 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy serve?
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is approximately 17.5:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy?
At Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy, the student body is approximately 16% White, 70% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy public or private?
Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is a public K-12 school, overseen by HOUSTON ISD.
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