AUSTIN EL

AUSTIN EL is one of the close-knit elementary schools in HARLINGEN, Texas, part of HARLINGEN CISD, with 295 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so AUSTIN EL sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

HARLINGEN CISD comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 17,506 students; AUSTIN EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AUSTIN EL lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, AUSTIN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cameron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), AUSTIN EL is one campus in the mix.

EDNA TAMAYO HOUSE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts AUSTIN EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.8%.

AUSTIN EL operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. AUSTIN EL's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 384 (now 295).

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