ORTEGA EL

As a modestly sized primary school in AUSTIN, Texas, ORTEGA EL educates 242 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD. That puts it 53% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

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

Demographically, ORTEGA EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment; the rest looks like 19% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, ORTEGA EL reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Travis County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORTEGA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.1%; this one delivers 33.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), ORTEGA EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HARRIS EL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ORTEGA EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 35.5%.

ORTEGA EL operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. ORTEGA EL's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 276 (now 242). Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 10% to 19%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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