ALLISON EL

ALLISON EL is a small primary school in AUSTIN, Texas, one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD. The school works with 362 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 30% below the state mean of about 519.

AUSTIN ISD comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 72,272 students; ALLISON EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALLISON EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at ALLISON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ALLISON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 25.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Travis County shows median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. ALLISON EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

Nearest neighbor: IDEA MONTOPOLIS ACADEMY, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ALLISON EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. ALLISON EL's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 362). The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 94% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.