MENCHACA EL

Set in MANCHACA, Texas, MENCHACA EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD. It serves 699 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% larger than the state mean of about 519.

AUSTIN ISD comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 72,272 students; MENCHACA EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MENCHACA EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Travis County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, MENCHACA EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.5%; actual is 35.3%, a gap of -19.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Travis County put median household earnings sit near $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), MENCHACA EL is one campus in the mix.

BARANOFF EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MENCHACA EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MENCHACA EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MENCHACA EL has fell 3%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 699 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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