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What's the most underrated thing about AUSTIN EL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
541
Elementary
DISTRICT 499 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COPPELL ISD·NCES 481521006380
Austin Elementary School
161 S MOORE, COPPELL, TX 75019 · (214) 496-7300 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL541 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Texas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
64 students
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 74 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Austin Elementary School→Coppell Middle East
Based on published attendance-zone data from COPPELL ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
74.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +41.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
68.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +14.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 45.0% | 29.0% | 17.0% | 9.0% |
| Mathematics | 40.0% | 28.0% | 19.0% | 13.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 74.0% | 68.0% |
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 65.0% |
| 2022-23 | 76.0% | 58.0% |
| 2021-22 | 70.0% | 55.0% |
| 2020-21 | 33.0% | 54.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Austin Elementary School
Austin Elementary School's state test result (63.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Elementary School this school | 541 | 11.8% | 63.3% |
| Bar W Elementary School LEANDER | 615 | 7.3% | 63.5% |
| Smith Elementary School FRISCO | 642 | 13.2% | 65.7% |
| Haun Elementary School PLANO | 486 | 16.5% | 65.5% |
| Beverly Cheatham Elementary School ALLEN | 669 | 13.8% | 86.4% |
| Sparks Elementary School FRISCO | 531 | 7.3% | 75.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Austin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #601 of 4,401 | #41 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #492 of 4,466 ▲ 253 | #43 of 429 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #515 of 4,466 ▲ 266 | #46 of 429 ▲ 16 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.0pp | #2,264 of 3,998 | #185 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 541 | #2,117 of 4,938 | #168 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,411 of 4,622 | #113 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.6% | #743 of 4,628 | #51 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.8% | #4,614 of 4,789 | #425 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.4% | #825 of 2,838 | #95 of 274 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
541
+120 (+29%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 593
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 541 | 39 | 13.9:1 | 12% (64) |
| 2023-24 | 517 | 41.3 | 12.5:1 | 13% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 37 | 13.9:1 | 12% (63) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 14% (57) |
| 2017-18 | 716 | 37.8 | 18.9:1 | 12% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 484 | 32 | 15.1:1 | 11% (53) |
| 2010-11 | 497 | 33 | 15.1:1 | 15% (77) |
| 2000-01 | 468 | 36 | 13.0:1 | 6% (26) |
| 1990-91 | 593 | 38 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Austin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (716 to 541); teachers up 3% (37.8 to 39).
About Austin Elementary School
Austin Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in COPPELL, Texas, one of the schools in COPPELL ISD. In all, 541 students attend the school in pre-K through 5.
COPPELL ISD counts 13,233 students in its 16 schools, and Austin Elementary School is one of them.
About 47% of students at Austin Elementary School are Asian, the largest single group. The school is also 28% White, 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 5% Black. The Asian share of the county population is lower, at 7%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 68, compared with 70 nationally.
The school had 39 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.9:1. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average ratio is 15.1:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 12%. The average for public schools in Dallas County is 77%.
Austin Elementary School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 64% of Texas public elementary schools.
The model predicts 68.6% for a school in Texas with Austin Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Austin Elementary School posts 63.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Dallas County show that median household income comes to about $76,547, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Dallas County counts 771 public schools with about 459,645 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, New Tech H S at Coppell, is about 0.5 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Austin Elementary School places 4th of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The NCES locale for Austin Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 120 students, from 421 to 541.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in COPPELL ISD
- Coppell High SchoolHigh · 4,068 students
- Coppell Middle WestMiddle · 1,230 students
- Coppell Middle EastMiddle · 1,120 students
- Coppell Middle NorthMiddle · 1,006 students
- Canyon Ranch Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Richard J Lee Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
Other schools in COPPELL
- Coppell High SchoolHigh · 4,068 students
- Universal Academy - CoppellCombined · 1,302 students
- Coppell Middle EastMiddle · 1,120 students
- Coppell Middle NorthMiddle · 1,006 students
- Denton Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 497 students
- Riverchase EleElementary · 496 students
Other Austin Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 4 states are named Austin Elementary. Austin Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 16.
- Austin Elementary SchoolCONROE, TX · 896 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolGALVESTON, TX · 784 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolDAYTON, TX · 771 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolABILENE, TX · 729 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolPECOS, TX · 583 students
Nearby schools
- New Tech H S at Coppell0.5 mi · 321
- Mockingbird Elementary School0.6 mi · 441
- Coppell Classical Academy0.6 mi · 432
- Coppell Middle East0.6 mi · 1,120
- Town Center Elementary School0.9 mi · 402
- Riverchase Ele1.2 mi · 496
Frequently asked questions
About Austin Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Austin Elementary School?
Austin Elementary School enrolls approximately 541 students in grades PK-05.
Is Austin Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Austin Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Austin Elementary School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Austin Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Austin Elementary School?
Student demographics at Austin Elementary School are roughly 28% White, 15% Hispanic, 5% Black, 47% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Austin Elementary School?
Austin Elementary School is overseen by COPPELL ISD in Dallas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.