GARCIA YMLA

GARCIA YMLA is one of the micro-enrollment middle-grades schools in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by AUSTIN ISD, with 255 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so GARCIA YMLA sits 60% leaner than that benchmark.

AUSTIN ISD runs 123 schools in total, collectively educating 72,272 students. GARCIA YMLA is one of those campuses.

Demographically, GARCIA YMLA records that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 12% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, GARCIA YMLA has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GARCIA YMLA performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of -10.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Travis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which GARCIA YMLA is one.

Nearest neighbor: JORDAN EL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GARCIA YMLA. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GARCIA YMLA at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 21.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. GARCIA YMLA's enrollment has ticked down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 255). Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 82% across the same window.

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