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Enrollment
854
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRING BRANCH ISD·NCES 484110004705
Wilchester Elementary School
13618 ST MARYS LN, HOUSTON, TX 77079 · (713) 251-7700 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL854 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
91 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 45 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 129 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 125 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 143 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 146 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 139 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (129) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (127).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
91.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +24.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
90.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +14.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 90 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 14 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 63.0% | 28.0% | 7.0% | 2.0% |
| Mathematics | 66.0% | 24.0% | 8.0% | 2.0% |
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 | 91.0% | 90.0% |
| 2024-25 | 91.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 90.0% | 89.0% |
| 2022-23 | 81.0% | 77.0% |
| 2021-22 | 82.0% | 85.0% |
| 2020-21 | 67.0% | 76.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
87.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 69% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Texas's top 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 Wilchester Elementary School
Wilchester Elementary School's state test result (87.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilchester Elementary School this school | 854 | 10.7% | 87.1% |
| Galatas Elementary School THE WOODLANDS | 792 | 10.1% | 83.8% |
| Hilltop Elementary School ARGYLE | 788 | 8.4% | 59.9% |
| Serene Hills Elementary School AUSTIN | 744 | 6.9% | 69.1% |
| C W Cline Elementary School FRIENDSWOOD | 906 | 4.3% | 72.4% |
| Brentfield Elementary School DALLAS | 815 | 9.2% | 84.1% |
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 Wilchester Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #15 of 4,401 | #3 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #18 of 4,466 ▼ 1 | #5 of 625 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #26 of 4,466 ▲ 12 | #5 of 625 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.5pp | #1,282 of 3,998 | #192 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 854 | #294 of 4,938 | #99 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #3,817 of 4,622 | #521 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #2,665 of 4,628 | #365 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.7% | #4,638 of 4,789 | #663 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.7% | #859 of 1,307 | #85 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
854
+44 (+5%) vs 2020
+93% since 1990-91, when it was 442
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 854 | 50.7 | 16.9:1 | 11% (91) |
| 2023-24 | 862 | 47.8 | 18.0:1 | 11% (94) |
| 2022-23 | 844 | 45.4 | 18.6:1 | 9% (74) |
| 2020-21 | 810 | 44 | 18.4:1 | 7% (53) |
| 2017-18 | 793 | 44.9 | 17.7:1 | 4% (33) |
| 2015-16 | 777 | 46 | 16.9:1 | 3% (23) |
| 2010-11 | 630 | 40 | 15.8:1 | 3% (20) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 2% (10) |
| 1990-91 | 442 | 33 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilchester Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (793 to 854); teachers up 13% (44.9 to 50.7).
About Wilchester Elementary School
Wilchester Elementary School is a large elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas. Total enrollment is 854 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Texas have about 519 students on average; enrollment here is 65% higher.
SPRING BRANCH ISD enrolls 33,793 students, and its 46 schools include Wilchester Elementary School.
More than half of the students at Wilchester Elementary School are White (71%). The rest of enrollment is 12% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Harris County's population at about 34%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wilchester Elementary School scores 47%.
The school's 50.7 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. At Wilchester Elementary School, 11% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Across public schools in Harris County, the average is 70%.
Wilchester Elementary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 18.0 points (87.1% versus 69.1%), a top-10% result in Texas on BeatsExpectations.
Harris County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $74,983, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Harris County's 1,205 public schools enroll about 886,911 students and include Wilchester Elementary School.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Westchester Academy for International Studies, is the closest to Wilchester Elementary School. Wilchester Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 58.6%, lower than Wilchester Elementary School's 87.1%.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 810 to 854, a 5% rise. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.9:1) than in 2020-21 (18.4:1).
The discussion board for Wilchester Elementary School is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
Related schools
Other schools in SPRING BRANCH ISD
- Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,636 students
- Northbrook High SchoolHigh · 2,398 students
- Stratford High SchoolHigh · 2,394 students
- Spring Woods High SchoolHigh · 2,020 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,236 students
- Spring Branch Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,137 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Westchester Academy for International Studies0.2 mi · 864
- Rummel Creek Elementary School0.8 mi · 793
- Sherwood Elementary School1.1 mi · 437
- Meadow Wood Elementary School1.2 mi · 686
- Spring Forest Middle School1.2 mi · 993
- Spring Branch Academic Institute1.2 mi · 174
Frequently asked questions
About Wilchester Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Wilchester Elementary School?
Wilchester Elementary School enrolls approximately 854 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Wilchester Elementary School serve?
Wilchester Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Wilchester Elementary School have?
Wilchester Elementary School employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Wilchester Elementary School?
Student demographics at Wilchester Elementary School are roughly 71% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Wilchester Elementary School?
Wilchester Elementary School is overseen by SPRING BRANCH ISD in Harris County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.