JORDAN EL

JORDAN EL operates as a moderately sized primary school in AUSTIN, Texas, part of AUSTIN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 492 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

AUSTIN ISD comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 72,272 students; JORDAN EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, JORDAN EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at JORDAN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Travis County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, JORDAN EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.5%; JORDAN EL posts 10.3%, -21.2 points below that line.

Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which JORDAN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: OVERTON EL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JORDAN EL. On composite proficiency, JORDAN EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 26%: 662 students in 2018 compared to 492 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.