RUTH BARRON EL

As a mid-sized K-5 school in PFLUGERVILLE, Texas, RUTH BARRON EL caters to 583 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PFLUGERVILLE ISD.

RUTH BARRON EL is one of 35 schools operated by PFLUGERVILLE ISD, a district that enrolls 25,477 students overall.

Demographically, RUTH BARRON EL shows that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black, 11% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, RUTH BARRON EL logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, RUTH BARRON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Travis County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), RUTH BARRON EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WIELAND EL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RUTH BARRON EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUTH BARRON EL has shrank 15%, going from 689 students in 2018 to 583 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 83% to 72%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for RUTH BARRON EL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.