Iltexas Houston Orem Elementary School

Size

Of the 18 elementary schools in International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas), Iltexas Houston Orem Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 3.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 372 students, so Iltexas Houston Orem Elementary School is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 3 with 154 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 62, against an average of 120 per grade. This year grade 5 has 65% more students than kindergarten (145 against 88). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 62 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 54% of enrollment, a higher share than across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) (25%). Hispanic students are next, at 40.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.7% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) 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

Iltexas Houston Orem Elementary School has 49.84 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 837 students would have about 56.6 teachers, so Iltexas Houston Orem Elementary School has 6.8 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 Frost Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 33 elementary schools within 5 miles and 169 within 10 miles.

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