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BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL
BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in ROUND ROCK, Texas, one of the schools within ROUND ROCK ISD. Current enrollment sits at 785 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL sits 51% bigger than that benchmark.
BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL is one of 58 schools operated by ROUND ROCK ISD, a district that caters to 46,954 students overall.
On demographics, BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 25% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
On the income-and-resources front, BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL logs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Williamson County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.8%, the actual is 67.6%, a residual of -1.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Williamson County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,340, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL is one of 208 public schools in Williamson County (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students).
Nearest neighbor: RIDGEVIEW MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL. On composite proficiency, BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Over the past 7-year window. BLACKLAND PRAIRIE EL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 804 (now 785). The White share of enrollment fell from 57% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.
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