MCBEE EL

MCBEE EL is one of the cozy primary schools in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by AUSTIN ISD, with 347 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MCBEE EL sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 123 schools in AUSTIN ISD (72,272 students total), MCBEE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MCBEE EL shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at MCBEE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MCBEE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Travis County) logs that 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. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), MCBEE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WALNUT CREEK EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MCBEE EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 347 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the MCBEE EL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.