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PIONEER CROSSING EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PIONEER CROSSING EL
PIONEER CROSSING EL operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in AUSTIN, Texas, one of the schools within MANOR ISD. Current enrollment sits at 503 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
MANOR ISD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 10,321 students. PIONEER CROSSING EL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, PIONEER CROSSING EL reports that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 11% White, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PIONEER CROSSING EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.
Around the school, census data for Travis County shows median household earnings sit near $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. PIONEER CROSSING EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).
BLUEBONNET TRAIL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PIONEER CROSSING EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PIONEER CROSSING EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 35.8%.
PIONEER CROSSING EL operates from an urban location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PIONEER CROSSING EL has contracted 19%, going from 621 students in 2018 to 503 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 17% to 9% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.
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