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Enrollment
574
Elementary
DISTRICT 638 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT BEND ISD·NCES 481965006699
Austin Parkway Elementary School
4400 AUSTIN PKWY, SUGAR LAND, TX 77479 · (281) 634-4001 · Fort Bend County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL574 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% 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.
- C+Beats 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
14.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
187 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 41 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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 Parkway Elementary School→First Colony Middle School
Based on published attendance-zone data from FORT BEND ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
75.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +17.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
54.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -1.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 41.0% | 34.0% | 13.0% | 12.0% |
| Mathematics | 26.0% | 28.0% | 25.0% | 21.0% |
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 | 75.0% | 54.0% |
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 54.0% |
| 2022-23 | 65.0% | 70.0% |
| 2021-22 | 73.0% | 69.0% |
| 2020-21 | 58.0% | 55.0% |
% 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
55.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Parkway Elementary School
Austin Parkway Elementary School's state test result (55.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Parkway Elementary School this school | 574 | 32.6% | 55.6% |
| Shawnee Trail Elementary School FRISCO | 494 | 29.6% | 49.2% |
| STEM Academy at Polser Elementary School CARROLLTON | 506 | 34.2% | 60.0% |
| George J Anderson Early Childhood School ALLEN | 439 | 38.3% | N/A |
| Settlers Way Elementary School SUGAR LAND | 698 | 35.1% | 61.9% |
| McCall Elementary School PLANO | 490 | 37.1% | 56.7% |
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 Parkway Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Fort Bend County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #1,015 of 4,401 | #59 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,392 of 4,466 ▼ 255 | #72 of 113 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #473 of 4,466 ▲ 369 | #41 of 113 ▲ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #847 of 3,998 | #20 of 104 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 574 | #1,816 of 4,938 | #82 of 119 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #2,150 of 4,622 | #51 of 116 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.5% | #91 of 4,628 | #14 of 116 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.6% | #4,162 of 4,789 | #80 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.7% | #1,196 of 2,838 | #28 of 61 |
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
574
-80 (-12%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 636
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 574 | 39.1 | 14.7:1 | 33% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 593 | 41.3 | 14.3:1 | 33% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 711 | 43.8 | 16.3:1 | 26% (183) |
| 2020-21 | 654 | 43 | 15.2:1 | 23% (150) |
| 2017-18 | 715 | 47 | 15.2:1 | 16% (116) |
| 2015-16 | 991 | 62 | 16.0:1 | 9% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 804 | 47 | 17.1:1 | 10% (77) |
| 2000-01 | 544 | 34 | 16.0:1 | 4% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 636 | 32 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Austin Parkway Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (715 to 574); teachers down 17% (47 to 39.1).
About Austin Parkway Elementary School
Austin Parkway Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in SUGAR LAND, Texas. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 574 students on the rolls.
FORT BEND ISD has 79,663 students spread across 83 schools.
The student body at Austin Parkway Elementary School has no majority group. Asian students lead at 37%. Other groups make up 22% Hispanic, 17% White, 16% Black, and 7% multiracial. Fort Bend County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 76, compared with 70 nationally.
Austin Parkway Elementary School lists 39.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.7 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Texas is about 15.1:1. The school reported 33% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Among public schools in Fort Bend County, the average eligibility rate is 42%.
Austin Parkway Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 55% of Texas public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Austin Parkway Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 55.6% actual against 59.8% predicted.
The county, Fort Bend County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $114,041 a year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Fort Bend County has 217 public schools with about 191,372 students, including Austin Parkway Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, Settlers Way Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Austin Parkway Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 55.6% is below the 56.6% average for nearby schools.
NCES assigns Austin Parkway Elementary School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 574, compared with 654 in 2020-21.
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Fort Bend County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
893,767
Census ACS
Median income
$114,041
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
217
191,372 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT BEND ISD
- William B Travis High SchoolHigh · 3,114 students
- Lawrence E Elkins High SchoolHigh · 2,848 students
- Ridge Point High SchoolHigh · 2,816 students
- Stephen F Austin High SchoolHigh · 2,655 students
- Clements High SchoolHigh · 2,641 students
- George Bush High SchoolHigh · 2,428 students
Other schools in SUGAR LAND
- Stephen F Austin High SchoolHigh · 2,655 students
- Clements High SchoolHigh · 2,641 students
- Dulles High SchoolHigh · 2,165 students
- Kempner High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Fort Settlement Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,504 students
- Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar LandElementary · 1,471 students
Nearby schools
- Settlers Way Elementary School0.7 mi · 698
- Lexington Creek Elementary School1.0 mi · 506
- First Colony Middle School1.2 mi · 1,270
- Quail Valley Middle School1.3 mi · 1,002
- Quail Valley Elementary School1.6 mi · 584
- Colony Bend Elementary School1.6 mi · 526
Frequently asked questions
About Austin Parkway Elementary SchoolHow large is Austin Parkway Elementary School?
Austin Parkway Elementary School enrolls approximately 574 students in grades PK-05.
Is Austin Parkway Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Austin Parkway Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Austin Parkway Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Austin Parkway Elementary School.
How diverse is Austin Parkway Elementary School?
Austin Parkway Elementary School reports a student body of 17% White, 22% Hispanic, 16% Black, 37% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Austin Parkway Elementary School?
Austin Parkway Elementary School is overseen by FORT BEND ISD in Fort Bend County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.