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GREAT OAKS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 29 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GREAT OAKS EL
GREAT OAKS EL is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in ROUND ROCK, Texas, part of ROUND ROCK ISD, with 868 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 67% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
GREAT OAKS EL is one of 58 schools operated by ROUND ROCK ISD, a district that instructs 46,954 students overall.
On the student-mix side, GREAT OAKS EL records that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 11% of students at GREAT OAKS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Williamson County (around 29%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GREAT OAKS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.4%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Williamson County indicate median household earnings sit near $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. In all, Williamson County runs 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), of which GREAT OAKS EL is one.
CEDAR VALLEY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREAT OAKS EL. On composite proficiency, GREAT OAKS EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 21%: 720 students in 2018 compared to 868 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 54% to 37% over that span.
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Williamson County at a glance
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