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Enrollment
704
Elementary
DISTRICT 629 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEANDER ISD·NCES 482703011370
Jim Plain Elementary School
501 S BROOK DR, LEANDER, TX 78641 · (512) 570-6600 · Williamson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL704 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
168 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 46 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
55.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +40.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
37.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +17.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 40 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 29.0% | 26.0% | 26.0% | 19.0% |
| Mathematics | 15.0% | 22.0% | 24.0% | 39.0% |
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 | 55.0% | 37.0% |
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 87.0% | 67.0% |
| 2021-22 | 62.0% | 42.0% |
| 2020-21 | 15.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
44.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 64% 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 Jim Plain Elementary School
Jim Plain Elementary School's state test result (44.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Plain Elementary School this school | 704 | 23.9% | 44.1% |
| Kolter Elementary School BELLAIRE | 771 | 23.6% | 80.5% |
| Hassler Elementary School KLEIN | 625 | 25.8% | 74.7% |
| Carver Center MIDLAND | 605 | 24.3% | 93.8% |
| French Elementary School KLEIN | 786 | 24.0% | 73.5% |
| George B Dealey Montessori Academy DALLAS | 634 | 26.8% | 83.4% |
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 Jim Plain Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Williamson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #2,065 of 4,401 | #54 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #3,251 of 4,466 ▼ 515 | #69 of 87 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,958 of 4,466 ▼ 237 | #55 of 87 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -31.0pp | #14 of 3,998 | #1 of 78 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 704 | #891 of 4,938 | #34 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #353 of 4,622 | #17 of 88 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #455 of 4,628 | #16 of 88 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.9% | #4,350 of 4,789 | #51 of 87 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #1,516 of 2,838 | #21 of 43 |
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
704
+35 (+5%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 771
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 704 | 58.6 | 12.0:1 | 24% (168) |
| 2023-24 | 859 | 61.3 | 14.0:1 | 26% (223) |
| 2022-23 | 811 | 59.7 | 13.6:1 | 26% (207) |
| 2020-21 | 669 | 53 | 12.6:1 | 25% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 838 | 55.6 | 15.1:1 | 26% (215) |
| 2015-16 | 649 | 47 | 13.8:1 | 25% (162) |
| 2010-11 | 771 | 53 | 14.6:1 | 38% (290) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jim Plain Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (838 to 704); teachers up 6% (55.6 to 58.6).
About Jim Plain Elementary School
Students in LEANDER, Texas, attend Jim Plain Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 704 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
Jim Plain Elementary School is one school in LEANDER ISD, a system of 51 schools with 42,680 students.
White students make up 42% of enrollment at Jim Plain Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 9% Black, and 9% Asian. In Williamson County overall, about 60% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 58.6 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1. Jim Plain Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 24%.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 44.1%, is 19.4 points below the 63.5% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Texas schools.
The school is in Williamson County, where the median household earns about $111,340 a year, about 48% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Williamson County, 208 public schools serve about 126,147 students.
Jim Plain Elementary School is about 0.8 miles from Bagdad Elementary School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Jim Plain Elementary School is ahead of the 42.8% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 5.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 704 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 669.
This page is set up for the Jim Plain Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Williamson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
672,688
Census ACS
Median income
$111,340
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
208
126,147 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEANDER ISD
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,480 students
- Vandegrift High SchoolHigh · 2,437 students
- Rouse High SchoolHigh · 2,260 students
- Cedar Park High SchoolHigh · 2,155 students
- Leander High SchoolHigh · 2,131 students
- Glenn High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
Other schools in LEANDER
- Rouse High SchoolHigh · 2,260 students
- Leander High SchoolHigh · 2,131 students
- Glenn High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Florence W Stiles Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,493 students
- Stacy Kaye Danielson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,182 students
- Knox Wiley Middle SchoolMiddle · 916 students
Nearby schools
- Bagdad Elementary School0.8 mi · 701
- Christine Camacho Elementary School1.1 mi · 622
- Early College High School1.1 mi · 267
- Leander Extended Opportunity1.1 mi · 67
- Glenn High School1.2 mi · 2,024
- New Hope High School1.2 mi · 65
Frequently asked questions
About Jim Plain Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Jim Plain Elementary School?
Jim Plain Elementary School enrolls approximately 704 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Jim Plain Elementary School serve?
Jim Plain Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jim Plain Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jim Plain Elementary School is approximately 12.0:1 (59 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jim Plain Elementary School?
At Jim Plain Elementary School, the student body is approximately 42% White, 30% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Jim Plain Elementary School public or private?
Jim Plain Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by LEANDER ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.