DONALD LEWIS HISLE

Set in LEANDER, Texas, DONALD LEWIS HISLE is a moderately sized K-5 school, overseen by LEANDER ISD. It works with 530 students across grades pre-K through 5.

DONALD LEWIS HISLE is one of 51 schools operated by LEANDER ISD, a district that serves 42,680 students overall.

On the student-mix side, DONALD LEWIS HISLE lists that 39% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 29% White, 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, DONALD LEWIS HISLE has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DONALD LEWIS HISLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 15% of students at DONALD LEWIS HISLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Williamson County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, DONALD LEWIS HISLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 67.2%; this one comes in at 52.0%, -15.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Williamson County shows median household earnings sit near $111,340, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Williamson County runs 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), of which DONALD LEWIS HISLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: GLENN H S, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DONALD LEWIS HISLE comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

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