KIKER EL

Set in AUSTIN, Texas, KIKER EL is a mid-sized elementary-level community, operated by AUSTIN ISD. It serves 750 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

KIKER EL is one of 123 schools operated by AUSTIN ISD, a district that caters to 72,272 students overall.

On demographics, KIKER EL records that White students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, KIKER EL has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KIKER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 4% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Travis County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIKER EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.2%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Travis County put 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%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which KIKER EL is one.

VALOR SOUTH AUSTIN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIKER EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 70.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KIKER EL has shrank 32%, going from 1,111 students in 2018 to 750 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 64% to 58%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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