NEWTON COLLINS EL

NEWTON COLLINS EL is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in AUSTIN, Texas, part of DEL VALLE ISD, hosting 600 students in grades pre-K through 5.

DEL VALLE ISD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 11,715 students; NEWTON COLLINS EL is among them.

Demographically, NEWTON COLLINS EL reports that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 19% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, NEWTON COLLINS EL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, NEWTON COLLINS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 41.2%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Travis County shows median household income runs about $99,611, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NEWTON COLLINS EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

Nearest neighbor: HILLCREST EL, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NEWTON COLLINS EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NEWTON COLLINS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

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