LINDER EL

Located at 2801 METCALFE RD, in AUSTIN, Texas, LINDER EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that caters to 587 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD.

Within AUSTIN ISD, which oversees 123 schools and 72,272 students, LINDER EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, LINDER EL records that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 7% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LINDER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Travis County) records that 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%. LINDER EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

Nearest neighbor: TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LINDER EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LINDER EL at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 38.0%.

LINDER EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LINDER EL has increased 92%, going from 306 students in 2018 to 587 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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