Austin Elementary School
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% |
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat 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% |
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% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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 | #2 of 183 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #519 of 4,466 | #4 of 183 |
| 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 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #2,437 of 2,838 | #117 of 128 |
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free or 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) |
| 2017-18 | 387 | 25 | 15.5:1 | 93% (358) |
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 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 shrank from 387 students in 2017-18 to 366 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.0:1) than in 2017-18 (15.5:1).
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