PADRON EL

PADRON EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in AUSTIN, Texas, run under AUSTIN ISD, with 625 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so PADRON EL sits 20% larger than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, PADRON EL lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 2% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Travis County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PADRON EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.0%; this one comes in at 12.3%, -19.7 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Travis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), PADRON EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BURNET MIDDLE, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PADRON EL at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 20.3%.

PADRON EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 759 students in 2018 compared to 625 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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