River Oaks Elementary School

Size

River Oaks Elementary School is the 23rd largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 777 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 663 students, so River Oaks Elementary 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 grade 5 with 139 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 113, against an average of 130 per grade. This year grade 5 has 23% more students than kindergarten (139 against 113). 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

White students are the largest group, at 32.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (10%). Asian students are next, at 29.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

9.5% 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

River Oaks Elementary School has 39.98 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 777 students would have about 52.5 teachers, so River Oaks Elementary School has 12.5 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 Ella J Baker Montessori School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 45 elementary schools within 5 miles and 240 within 10 miles.

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