OVERTON EL

OVERTON EL, a modestly sized primary school in AUSTIN, Texas, part of AUSTIN ISD, hosts 440 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, OVERTON EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Other groups include 15% Black. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, OVERTON EL records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at OVERTON 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, OVERTON EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.5%; actual is 18.0%, a gap of -15.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Travis County shows median household earnings sit near $99,611, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), OVERTON EL is one campus in the mix.

JORDAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OVERTON EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OVERTON EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 22.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. OVERTON EL's enrollment has ticked down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 440). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 83% across the same window.

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