Austin Discovery School

Austin Discovery School is a small elementary school serving families in AUSTIN, Texas. The school reports 202 students in kindergarten through 6. The school's enrollment is 61% smaller than the 519 average for elementary schools in Texas.

The school serves as its own district in federal records.

At Austin Discovery School, White students make up 63% of the student body. After that, the student body is 28% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 52%, meaning two students picked at random have a 52% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The teaching staff at Austin Discovery School is 16.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.2:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas.

Census estimates describe Travis County this way: the median household income is $99,611, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. In all, Travis County has 333 public schools and roughly 191,706 students.

KIPP Alegria Primary School is the public school closest to Austin Discovery School, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Under the NCES locale system, Austin Discovery School is Rural: Fringe. Austin Discovery School is one of the charter schools in Texas.

Enrollment records show 433 in 2020-21 and 202 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 12.2:1, from 10.3:1.

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