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LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are down about 1 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S
LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of the mid-tier high schools in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by AUSTIN ISD, with 734 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
AUSTIN ISD comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 72,272 students; LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S is among them.
Demographically, LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S shows that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 30% Black, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Travis County's rate of about 54%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.9%; this one delivers 29.6%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate 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%. LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).
MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI FOR ALL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.0%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LBJ EARLY COLLEGE H S has shrank 8%, going from 799 students in 2018 to 734 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 38% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.
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