BEE CAVE EL

BEE CAVE EL, a sprawling elementary-level community in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by LAKE TRAVIS ISD, instructs 785 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BEE CAVE EL sits 51% bigger than that benchmark.

BEE CAVE EL is one of 11 schools operated by LAKE TRAVIS ISD, a district that works with 11,008 students overall.

Demographically, BEE CAVE EL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 19% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BEE CAVE EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 3% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Travis County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BEE CAVE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.4%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Travis County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which BEE CAVE EL is one.

LAKE TRAVIS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BEE CAVE EL at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 66.0%.

BEE CAVE EL operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BEE CAVE EL has expanded 5%, going from 750 students in 2018 to 785 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 72% to 60%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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