LOIS F GIDDENS EL

Set in CEDAR PARK, Texas, LOIS F GIDDENS EL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, overseen by LEANDER ISD. It enrolls 483 students across grades pre-K through 5.

LOIS F GIDDENS EL is one of 51 schools operated by LEANDER ISD, a district that serves 42,680 students overall.

In terms of who attends, LOIS F GIDDENS EL reports that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, LOIS F GIDDENS EL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Williamson County's rate of about 29%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LOIS F GIDDENS EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 55.9%; LOIS F GIDDENS EL posts 23.5%, -32.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Williamson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $111,340 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Williamson County's 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), LOIS F GIDDENS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is C C MASON EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LOIS F GIDDENS EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 533 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 40% to 27%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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