PARMER LANE EL

Located at 1806 PARMER LN, in AUSTIN, Texas, PARMER LANE EL is a medium-sized elementary campus that instructs 488 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of PFLUGERVILLE ISD.

PFLUGERVILLE ISD runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 25,477 students. PARMER LANE EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PARMER LANE EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment; the rest reads as 9% White, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PARMER LANE EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at PARMER LANE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PARMER LANE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 39.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Travis County shows median household earnings sit near $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), PARMER LANE EL is one campus in the mix.

WESTVIEW MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARMER LANE EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARMER LANE EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARMER LANE EL has decreased 3%, going from 501 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 65% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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