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What tradition at CLAYTON EL should never be changed?
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Enrollment
637
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUSTIN ISD·NCES 480894011061
Clayton Elementary School
7525 LA CROSSE AVE, AUSTIN, TX 78739 · (512) 841-9200 · Travis County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL637 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
31 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 124 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
87.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +7.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
74.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 55.0% | 32.0% | 10.0% | 3.0% |
| Mathematics | 44.0% | 30.0% | 19.0% | 7.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 87.0% | 74.0% |
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 80.0% |
| 2022-23 | 89.0% | 79.0% |
| 2021-22 | 89.0% | 87.0% |
| 2020-21 | 80.0% | 81.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Clayton Elementary School
Clayton Elementary School's state test result (77.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton Elementary School this school | 637 | 4.9% | 77.2% |
| Wellington Elementary School FLOWER MOUND | 731 | 4.8% | 79.5% |
| Deer Creek Elementary School CEDAR PARK | 638 | 8.5% | 74.9% |
| Rancho Sienna Elementary School GEORGETOWN | 770 | 7.7% | 66.8% |
| Argyle West ARGYLE | 643 | 4.2% | 69.8% |
| Fern Bluff Elementary School ROUND ROCK | 596 | 11.4% | 73.1% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Clayton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Travis County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #145 of 4,401 | #7 of 166 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #282 of 4,466 ▲ 104 | #22 of 176 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #70 of 4,466 ▲ 77 | #8 of 176 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #778 of 3,998 | #29 of 166 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 637 | #1,345 of 4,938 | #47 of 183 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #997 of 4,622 | #71 of 174 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.8% | #995 of 4,628 | #38 of 174 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.9% | #4,752 of 4,789 | #164 of 170 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.0% | #865 of 2,838 | #41 of 120 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
637
-86 (-12%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 876
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 637 | 48 | 13.3:1 | 5% (31) |
| 2023-24 | 675 | 48.9 | 13.8:1 | 6% (39) |
| 2022-23 | 718 | 46.5 | 15.4:1 | 6% (41) |
| 2020-21 | 723 | 51 | 14.2:1 | 9% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 838 | 54.2 | 15.5:1 | 1% (12) |
| 2015-16 | 876 | 55 | 15.9:1 | 2% (14) |
| 2010-11 | 876 | 55 | 15.9:1 | 3% (25) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clayton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (838 to 637); teachers down 12% (54.2 to 48).
About Clayton Elementary School
Clayton Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in AUSTIN, Texas. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 637 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Texas is about 519 students, so this school is 23% larger than average.
Clayton Elementary School sits within AUSTIN ISD, which has 123 schools and 72,272 students.
Clayton Elementary School is 52% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 21% Hispanic, 18% Asian, and 7% multiracial. The White share in Travis County as a whole is similar, at about 55%. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 48 full-time-equivalent teachers at Clayton Elementary School and a ratio of 13.3:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 5% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Travis County average 54%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Clayton Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 77.2% actual against 71.6% predicted.
Census estimates describe Travis County this way: the median household income is $99,611, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Besides Clayton Elementary School, Travis County has 332 other public schools.
Baldwin Elementary School is the closest public school, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Clayton Elementary School. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Clayton Elementary School is 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Enrollment at Clayton Elementary School declined 12% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 723 to 637 students.
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Travis County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,330,015
Census ACS
Median income
$99,611
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
333
191,706 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in AUSTIN ISD
- Bowie High SchoolHigh · 2,876 students
- Akins Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,421 students
- Austin High SchoolHigh · 2,323 students
- Anderson High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- McCallum High SchoolHigh · 1,897 students
- Navarro Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,633 students
Other schools in AUSTIN
- Lake Travis High SchoolHigh · 3,569 students
- Bowie High SchoolHigh · 2,876 students
- Westwood High SchoolHigh · 2,858 students
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 2,854 students
- McNeil High SchoolHigh · 2,660 students
- Vandegrift High SchoolHigh · 2,437 students
Other Clayton Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Clayton Elementary. Clayton Elementary School is the largest of the 6.
- Clayton Elementary SchoolClayton, DE · 487 students
- Clayton Elementary SchoolENGLEWOOD, CO · 402 students
- Clayton Elementary SchoolCanton, GA · 290 students
- Clayton ElementaryNeenah, WI · 206 students
- Clayton ElementaryClayton, WI · 124 students
Nearby schools
- Baldwin Elementary School1.2 mi · 582
- Kiker Elementary School1.5 mi · 750
- Gorzycki Middle School1.6 mi · 1,305
- Valor South Austin1.7 mi · 1,364
- Bear Creek Elementary School1.7 mi · 509
- Mills Elementary School2.0 mi · 703
Frequently asked questions
About Clayton Elementary SchoolHow large is Clayton Elementary School?
Clayton Elementary School enrolls approximately 637 students in grades PK-05.
Is Clayton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Clayton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Clayton Elementary School?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Clayton Elementary School.
How diverse is Clayton Elementary School?
Clayton Elementary School reports a student body of 52% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 18% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Clayton Elementary School in?
Clayton Elementary School is part of AUSTIN ISD.
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