Enrollment
366
Elementary
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDINBURG CISD·NCES 481818001635
Austin Elementary School
1023 E KUHN ST, EDINBURG, TX 78539 · (956) 289-2331 · Hidalgo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL366 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Texas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
14.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
317 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 87 | 24% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 32% larger than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 4% · 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
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
74.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +39.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
79.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +60.0pp 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 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 60 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 39.0% | 35.0% | 24.0% | 2.0% |
| Mathematics | 36.0% | 43.0% | 17.0% | 4.0% |
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% | 79.0% |
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 73.0% |
| 2022-23 | 57.0% | 61.0% |
| 2021-22 | 75.0% | 71.0% |
| 2020-21 | 35.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
76.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+39.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 40 points, placing it in Texas's top 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 (76.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Elementary School this school | 366 | 86.6% | 76.5% |
| Kazen Elementary School LAREDO | 367 | 86.9% | 75.7% |
| Marcell Elementary School MISSION | 378 | 86.5% | 36.8% |
| Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls SAN ANTONIO | 354 | 87.6% | 24.2% |
| Coldwell Elementary School EL PASO | 354 | 87.9% | 42.1% |
| Bluebonnet Elementary School HEREFORD | 366 | 87.4% | 43.0% |
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 Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.5% | #153 of 4,401 | #1 of 181 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #148 of 4,466 ▼ 86 | #2 of 183 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #519 of 4,466 ▼ 331 | #4 of 183 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +17.5pp | #677 of 3,998 | #28 of 180 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 366 | #3,759 of 4,938 | #159 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,540 of 4,622 | #29 of 185 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.8% | #4,381 of 4,628 | #78 of 185 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.6% | #1,422 of 4,789 | #126 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #2,437 of 2,838 | #117 of 128 |
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
366
+22 (+6%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 406
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 366 | 26.1 | 14.0:1 | 87% (317) |
| 2023-24 | 349 | 24.6 | 14.2:1 | 91% (317) |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 32.5 | 11.0:1 | 91% (325) |
| 2020-21 | 344 | 25 | 13.8:1 | 91% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 387 | 25 | 15.5:1 | 93% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 367 | 27 | 13.6:1 | 94% (344) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 333 | 23 | 14.5:1 | 42% (139) |
| 1990-91 | 406 | 26 | 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 5% (387 to 366); teachers up 4% (25 to 26.1).
About Austin Elementary School
Austin Elementary School is a small elementary school found in EDINBURG, Texas. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 366 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
EDINBURG CISD has 33,343 students in 44 schools, and Austin Elementary School is one of those schools.
Hispanic students are 98% of those enrolled at Austin Elementary School. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 4, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 26.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.0 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Texas, 15.1:1, is higher. Austin Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 87%. That is in line with the 85% average for public schools in Hidalgo County.
Austin Elementary School earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 99% of Texas public elementary schools.
Austin Elementary School is a top-10% school in Texas on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 36.7% with an actual 76.5%.
In the surrounding county, Hidalgo County, the median household earns about $54,338 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Counting Austin Elementary School, Hidalgo County has 364 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Austin Elementary School is closest to Lincoln Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. Austin Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Austin Elementary School's average proficiency of 76.5% compares with 57.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Austin Elementary School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
The school grew from 344 students in 2020-21 to 366 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Austin Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EDINBURG CISD
- Economedes High SchoolHigh · 2,689 students
- Edinburg North High SchoolHigh · 2,542 students
- Edinburg High SchoolHigh · 2,267 students
- Robert R Vela High SchoolHigh · 2,101 students
- Betty Harwell Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,301 students
- South Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,246 students
Other schools in EDINBURG
- Economedes High SchoolHigh · 2,689 students
- Edinburg North High SchoolHigh · 2,542 students
- Edinburg High SchoolHigh · 2,267 students
- Robert R Vela High SchoolHigh · 2,101 students
- Vanguard BeethovenCombined · 1,782 students
- Betty Harwell Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,301 students
Other Austin Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 4 states are named Austin Elementary. Austin Elementary School is the 12th 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
- Lincoln Elementary School0.3 mi · 400
- L B Johnson Elementary School0.8 mi · 402
- Travis Elementary School0.9 mi · 337
- Early Childhood0.9 mi · 352
- Jefferson Elementary School0.9 mi · 511
- Francisco Barrientes Middle School1.0 mi · 1,064
Frequently asked questions
About Austin Elementary SchoolHow large is Austin Elementary School?
Austin Elementary School enrolls approximately 366 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Austin Elementary School serve?
Austin Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Austin Elementary School have?
Austin Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
How diverse is Austin Elementary School?
Austin Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 1% Black.
What district is Austin Elementary School in?
Austin Elementary School is part of EDINBURG CISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.