PALM EL

PALM EL, a cozy elementary school in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by AUSTIN ISD, hosts 329 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so PALM EL sits 37% below that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, PALM EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Other groups include 6% White, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, PALM EL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Travis County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, PALM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Travis County) shows that median household income runs about $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which PALM EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LANGFORD EL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PALM EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 27.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. PALM EL's enrollment has ticked down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 449 (now 329). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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