BARTON HILLS EL

BARTON HILLS EL is an elementary campus of cozy scale in AUSTIN, Texas, part of AUSTIN ISD, teacheing 286 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BARTON HILLS EL sits 45% leaner than that benchmark.

AUSTIN ISD runs 123 schools in total, collectively educating 72,272 students. BARTON HILLS EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, BARTON HILLS EL lists that White students make up the majority at 75%. The remainder breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BARTON HILLS EL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BARTON HILLS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at BARTON HILLS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BARTON HILLS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 75.4%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Across the wider county, Travis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. BARTON HILLS EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

ZILKER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BARTON HILLS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BARTON HILLS EL at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 63.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 37%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 66% to 75%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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