Garden Oaks Montessori

Size

Of the 178 elementary schools in Houston ISD, Garden Oaks Montessori is the 27th largest, with 0.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 471 students, so Garden Oaks Montessori 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 pre-K with 115 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 32, against an average of 76 per grade. This year grade 8 has 67% fewer students than kindergarten (32 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 115 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 57.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). White students are next, at 24.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

42.7% 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

Garden Oaks Montessori has 44.27 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 763 students would have about 51.6 teachers, so Garden Oaks Montessori has 7.3 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Durham Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 63 elementary schools within 5 miles and 210 within 10 miles.

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