LEE EL

LEE EL, a close-knit K-5 school in AUSTIN, Texas, one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD, caters to 428 students, covering grades K through 6.

LEE EL is one of 123 schools operated by AUSTIN ISD, a district that serves 72,272 students overall.

In terms of who attends, LEE EL records that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Travis County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, LEE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.6%; this one delivers 63.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,611, 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 LEE EL is one.

The closest other public school is MAPLEWOOD EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEE EL. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEE EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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