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What's one thing COOK EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUSTIN ISD·NCES 480894000309
COOK EL
1511 CRIPPLE CREEK DR, AUSTIN, TX 78758 · (512) 414-2510 · Travis County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
411 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
26.0%
TX avg 51.8% . -11.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
26.0%
TX avg 42.0% . +0.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 11 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
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
21.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
433
-20 (-4%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 14.5:1
% White
5%
was 3%
% Hispanic
91%
was 86%
% Black
2%
was 9%
% Asian
1%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About COOK EL
COOK EL is a modestly sized elementary-level community in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by AUSTIN ISD. The school works with 433 students in grades pre-K through 5.
COOK EL is one of 123 schools operated by AUSTIN ISD, a district that instructs 72,272 students overall.
Demographically, COOK EL records that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Travis County's rate of about 54%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COOK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 21.9%, a residual of -10.5 points.
In the broader community, census data for Travis County shows 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%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), COOK EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is BASIS AUSTIN, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COOK EL. On composite proficiency, COOK EL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 18.8%.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
Trend over the last 7 years. COOK EL's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 453 (now 433). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 9% to 2% over that span.
In the discussion threads here, members of the COOK EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 H SHigh · 2,876 students
- AKINS EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,421 students
- AUSTIN H SHigh · 2,323 students
- ANDERSON H SHigh · 2,223 students
- MCCALLUM H SHigh · 1,897 students
- NAVARRO EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,633 students
Other schools in AUSTIN
- LAKE TRAVIS H SHigh · 3,569 students
- BOWIE H SHigh · 2,876 students
- WESTWOOD H SHigh · 2,858 students
- WESTLAKE H SHigh · 2,854 students
- MCNEIL H SHigh · 2,660 students
- VANDEGRIFT H SHigh · 2,437 students
Nearby schools
- BASIS AUSTIN0.5 mi · 155
- BASIS AUSTIN PRI0.5 mi · 243
- MCBEE EL0.9 mi · 347
- WOOLDRIDGE EL1.0 mi · 462
- PADRON EL1.0 mi · 625
- SETTLEMENT HOME1.0 mi · 32
Frequently asked questions
About COOK ELWhat is the total enrollment at COOK EL?
COOK EL enrolls approximately 433 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does COOK EL serve?
COOK EL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does COOK EL have?
COOK EL employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
How diverse is COOK EL?
COOK EL reports a student body of 5% White, 91% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees COOK EL?
COOK EL is overseen by AUSTIN ISD in Travis County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.