Briarmeadow Charter

Size

Briarmeadow Charter is the 58th largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 591 students are 0.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 886 students, so Briarmeadow Charter is smaller 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 2 with 75 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 38, against an average of 59 per grade. This year grade 8 has 36% fewer students than kindergarten (42 against 66). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 38 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Asian students are the largest group, at 29.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (5.2%). Hispanic students are next, at 26.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

42.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Briarmeadow Charter has 34.95 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 591 students would have about 39.9 teachers, so Briarmeadow Charter has 4.9 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. KIPP Sharp Prep (in KIPP Texas Public Schools) is listed at the same location. There are 65 elementary schools within 5 miles and 198 within 10 miles.

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