B H Hamblen Elementary School

Size

B H Hamblen Elementary School is the largest of Channelview ISD's 6 elementary schools; its 886 students are 9.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 664 students, so B H Hamblen Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 4 with 187 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 117, against an average of 148 per grade. This year grade 5 has 38% more students than kindergarten (161 against 117). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 82.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across Channelview ISD (83.6%). Black students are next, at 12.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.7% across Channelview ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

B H Hamblen Elementary School has 56.71 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 886 students would have about 59.9 teachers, so B H Hamblen Elementary School has 3.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is McMullan Elementary School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. There are 24 elementary schools within 5 miles and 94 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.