BRENTWOOD EL

BRENTWOOD EL is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in AUSTIN, Texas, part of AUSTIN ISD, enrolling 671 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% larger than the state mean of about 519.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, BRENTWOOD EL logs that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, BRENTWOOD EL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 14% of students at BRENTWOOD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, BRENTWOOD EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 67.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which BRENTWOOD EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAMAR MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRENTWOOD EL. On composite proficiency, BRENTWOOD EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. BRENTWOOD EL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 671). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 30% to 25%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.