WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY

As a mid-tier K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY works with 715 students from grades pre-K through 8, overseen by HOUSTON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY sits 38% above that benchmark.

WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that teaches 176,727 students overall.

On the student-mix side, WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 16% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 64.7%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one.

CARNEGIE VANGUARD H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 63.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. WHARTON K-8 DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY's enrollment has rose 38% since 2018, when it stood at 517 (now 715). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 12% to 8%.

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