AUSTIN EL

Located at 2341 GREENBRIAR DR, in ABILENE, Texas, AUSTIN EL is a mid-sized primary school that caters to 729 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by ABILENE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so AUSTIN EL sits 40% above that benchmark.

ABILENE ISD comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 14,536 students; AUSTIN EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AUSTIN EL lists that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Taylor County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting AUSTIN EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AUSTIN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Taylor County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,139, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Taylor County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,159 students), AUSTIN EL is one campus in the mix.

PREMIER H S OF ABILENE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AUSTIN EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. AUSTIN EL's enrollment has grew 23% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 729). Over the same period, the White share declined from 56% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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