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LAKE POINTE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 45 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 LAKE POINTE EL
LAKE POINTE EL is a moderately sized primary school in AUSTIN, Texas, part of LAKE TRAVIS ISD. The school hosts 721 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
LAKE TRAVIS ISD comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 11,008 students; LAKE POINTE EL is among them.
On the student-mix side, LAKE POINTE EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, LAKE POINTE EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 3% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Travis County's rate of about 54%.
After controlling for student poverty, LAKE POINTE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.3%; this one delivers 80.3%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Travis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which LAKE POINTE EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: WEST RIDGE MIDDLE, around 2.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LAKE POINTE EL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 68.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 739 students in 2018 compared to 721 in 2025.
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