Zelma Hutsell Elementary School is located at 5360 Franz Road, Katy, TX 77493. The campus serves students in pre-kindergarten through grade 5. Enrollment stands at 800 students as of the 2023–24 school year. The student-teacher ratio is 12:1. The student body is 49% female and 51% male. State testing shows that 43% of students reached proficiency in math and 46% in reading. Zelma Hutsell Elementary operates as a public non-charter school within Katy Independent School District, offering a Gifted and Talented program and maintaining one full-time school counselor — serving a student body that is 79% minority enrolled with 71% economically disadvantaged and 49% enrolled in bilingual or ELL programming, one of the highest bilingual rates among Katy ISD campuses in this group. Zelma Hutsell Elementary serves a defined neighborhood attendance boundary in the Franz Road residential corridor of Katy under Katy ISD's PK–5 campus structure. Homes surrounding the campus commonly list near $350,000 based on current Katy area market data. As a Katy TX public elementary school within Katy ISD with a favorable 12:1 ratio and the 5th highest per-student spending in the district at $12,219, Zelma Hutsell stands among the best elementary schools in Texas for high-need public campuses with strong resource investment in the Katy TX school district.