WILLIAMS EL

Located at 1522 SCARBOROUGH LN, in PASADENA, Texas, WILLIAMS EL is a mid-tier primary school that educates 455 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of PASADENA ISD.

PASADENA ISD comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 46,491 students; WILLIAMS EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, WILLIAMS EL shows that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 4% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, WILLIAMS EL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at WILLIAMS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, WILLIAMS EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.7%; WILLIAMS EL posts 48.2%, +14.5 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which WILLIAMS EL is one.

QUEENS INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 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 WILLIAMS EL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 41.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 24%: 599 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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