HOUSTON EL

HOUSTON EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community in AUSTIN, Texas, one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD. The school instructs 496 students in grades pre-K through 6.

HOUSTON EL is one of 123 schools operated by AUSTIN ISD, a district that enrolls 72,272 students overall.

In terms of who attends, HOUSTON EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school records 6% Black. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, HOUSTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -10.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Travis County) reports that 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%. HOUSTON EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

UPHAUS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOUSTON EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOUSTON EL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.7%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOUSTON EL has edged down 23%, going from 642 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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