BLANTON EL

BLANTON EL is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by AUSTIN ISD, with 748 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% above the state mean of about 519.

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

On demographics, BLANTON EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 38% White, 7% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BLANTON EL has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BLANTON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Travis County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BLANTON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Travis County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which BLANTON EL is one.

The closest other public school is AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BLANTON EL. On composite proficiency, BLANTON EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 45%: 516 students in 2018 compared to 748 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 68% to 44%.

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