DRIPPING SPRINGS EL

Set in DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas, DRIPPING SPRINGS EL is an expansive elementary-level community, overseen by DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD. It caters to 1,104 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DRIPPING SPRINGS EL sits 113% bigger than that benchmark.

Within DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD, which oversees 8 schools and 8,712 students, DRIPPING SPRINGS EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, DRIPPING SPRINGS EL records that White students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. Compared to Hays County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, DRIPPING SPRINGS EL shows 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hays County (around 46%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, DRIPPING SPRINGS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 63.4%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hays County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,097, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Hays County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students), of which DRIPPING SPRINGS EL is one.

DRIPPING SPRINGS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DRIPPING SPRINGS EL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. DRIPPING SPRINGS EL's enrollment has ticked up 44% since 2018, when it stood at 767 (now 1,104).

On allk12, members of the DRIPPING SPRINGS EL community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.