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How has DESSAU EL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
554
Elementary
DISTRICT 551 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PFLUGERVILLE ISD·NCES 483483006463
Dessau Elementary School
1501 DESSAU RIDGE LN, AUSTIN, TX 78754 · (512) 594-4600 · Travis County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
458 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 59 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
32.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +12.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
20.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +2.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 12.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 43.0% |
| Mathematics | 6.0% | 14.0% | 19.0% | 61.0% |
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 | 32.0% | 20.0% |
| 2024-25 | 30.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 14.0% |
| 2022-23 | 24.0% | 24.0% |
| 2021-22 | 36.0% | 22.0% |
| 2020-21 | 20.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Dessau Elementary School
Dessau Elementary School's state test result (17.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dessau Elementary School this school | 554 | 82.7% | 17.1% |
| River Oaks Elementary School AUSTIN | 551 | 83.5% | 36.2% |
| Ursula Stephens Elementary School KATY | 578 | 78.9% | 50.4% |
| IDEA Parmer Park Academy AUSTIN | 621 | 81.0% | 40.5% |
| Rees Elementary School HOUSTON | 526 | 81.4% | 49.8% |
| Montclair Elementary School GARLAND | 557 | 85.6% | 34.5% |
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 Dessau Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Travis County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #4,328 of 4,401 | #152 of 166 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #4,371 of 4,466 ▼ 63 | #163 of 176 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #4,227 of 4,466 ▼ 42 | #152 of 176 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #2,573 of 3,998 | #111 of 166 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #2,005 of 4,938 | #69 of 183 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #2,556 of 4,622 | #121 of 174 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.8% | #2,863 of 4,628 | #111 of 174 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.7% | #1,755 of 4,789 | #68 of 170 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #2,130 of 2,838 | #98 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
554
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 635
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 554 | 36.7 | 15.1:1 | 83% (458) |
| 2023-24 | 555 | 38.1 | 14.6:1 | 77% (430) |
| 2022-23 | 575 | 42.4 | 13.6:1 | 70% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 539 | 45 | 12.0:1 | 84% (455) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 43.6 | 13.9:1 | 65% (394) |
| 2015-16 | 510 | 35 | 14.6:1 | 80% (410) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 41 | 14.7:1 | 83% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 654 | 40 | 16.4:1 | 48% (314) |
| 1990-91 | 635 | 34 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dessau Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (608 to 554); teachers down 16% (43.6 to 36.7).
About Dessau Elementary School
Located in AUSTIN, Texas, Dessau Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 554 students.
Dessau Elementary School sits within PFLUGERVILLE ISD, which has 35 schools and 25,477 students.
At 73%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Dessau Elementary School combined. Other students are 13% Black, 7% White, and 5% Asian. By comparison, Travis County residents are about 33% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Dessau Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 44%.
Dessau Elementary School counts 36.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.1 students for each one. Elementary schools in Texas have a similar average ratio of 15.1:1. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Travis County, the average is 54%.
Test results at Dessau Elementary School are 21.3 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 17.1%, compared with a predicted 38.4%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Texas.
Federal survey data for Travis County show that median household income is about $99,611, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. A total of 333 public schools operate in Travis County, serving about 191,706 students.
The school nearest to Dessau Elementary School is Wilhelmina Delco Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of Dessau Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Dessau Elementary School is 9th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Dessau Elementary School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 554, 3% above the 539 of 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.1 students per teacher, compared with 12.0 in 2020-21.
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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 PFLUGERVILLE ISD
- Hendrickson High SchoolHigh · 2,128 students
- Weiss High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- John B Connally High SchoolHigh · 1,974 students
- Pflugerville High SchoolHigh · 1,794 students
- Kelly Lane Middle SchoolMiddle · 910 students
- Bohls Middle SchoolMiddle · 830 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
Nearby schools
- Wilhelmina Delco Elementary School0.2 mi · 470
- Dessau Middle School0.2 mi · 596
- IDEA Parmer Park College Preparatory1.1 mi · 624
- IDEA Parmer Park Academy1.1 mi · 621
- Copperfield Elementary School1.3 mi · 526
- Wieland Elementary School1.5 mi · 372
Frequently asked questions
About Dessau Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Dessau Elementary School?
Dessau Elementary School enrolls approximately 554 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Dessau Elementary School serve?
Dessau Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Dessau Elementary School?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at Dessau Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dessau Elementary School?
At Dessau Elementary School, the student body is approximately 7% White, 73% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Dessau Elementary School?
Dessau Elementary School is overseen by PFLUGERVILLE ISD in Travis County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.