PICKLE EL

PICKLE EL is a primary school of modestly sized scale in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by AUSTIN ISD, enrolling 407 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, PICKLE EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). The remainder comes out to 4% Black. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at PICKLE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PICKLE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 25.6%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,611, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PICKLE EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

Nearest neighbor: DIBOLL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PICKLE EL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

PICKLE EL operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. PICKLE EL's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 544 (now 407).

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