CYPRESS EL

CYPRESS EL, a medium-sized K-5 school in CEDAR PARK, Texas, run under LEANDER ISD, hosts 506 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

LEANDER ISD runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 42,680 students. CYPRESS EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, CYPRESS EL records that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, CYPRESS EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Williamson County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CYPRESS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.9%, the actual is 54.6%, a residual of -11.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Williamson County indicate median household income runs about $111,340, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Williamson County's 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), CYPRESS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CEDAR PARK, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CYPRESS EL. On composite proficiency, CYPRESS EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 26%: 684 students in 2018 compared to 506 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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