DEL VALLE EL

DEL VALLE EL is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in DEL VALLE, Texas, overseen by DEL VALLE ISD, teacheing 726 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 40% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

DEL VALLE EL is one of 15 schools operated by DEL VALLE ISD, a district that enrolls 11,715 students overall.

Demographically, DEL VALLE EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). The remainder is composed of 7% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, DEL VALLE EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.8%; actual is 18.4%, a gap of -16.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), DEL VALLE EL is one campus in the mix.

DEL VALLE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around DEL VALLE EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DEL VALLE EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DEL VALLE EL has shrank 9%, going from 794 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.