Ella J Baker Montessori School

Size

Ella J Baker Montessori School is the 56th largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 610 students are 0.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 556; Ella J Baker Montessori School is close to their typical size.

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 pre-K with 101 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 25, against an average of 61 per grade. This year grade 8 has 73% fewer students than kindergarten (26 against 97). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 101 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 42% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. White students are next, at 29%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

32.1% of its students are eligible 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

With 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers for 610 students, Ella J Baker Montessori School has 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 610 students would have about 41.2 teachers, so Ella J Baker Montessori School has 4.3 fewer.

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

Location

Ella J Baker Montessori School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 231 other elementary schools, 53 of them within 5 miles.

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