PEREZ EL

Set in AUSTIN, Texas, PEREZ EL is a mid-tier primary school, part of AUSTIN ISD. It educates 460 students across grades pre-K through 6.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, PEREZ EL lists that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 3% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PEREZ EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at PEREZ EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Travis County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, PEREZ EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.2%; this one delivers 20.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), PEREZ EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LANGFORD EL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PEREZ EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PEREZ EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. PEREZ EL's enrollment has edged down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 650 (now 460). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 89% to 93%.

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