S F AUSTIN EL

Located at 7351 STEPHEN F AUSTIN RD, in JONES CREEK, Texas, S F AUSTIN EL is a minimally staffed elementary campus that caters to 189 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by BRAZOSPORT ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

BRAZOSPORT ISD runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 11,169 students. S F AUSTIN EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, S F AUSTIN EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%; the rest reads as 35% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Brazoria County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting S F AUSTIN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at S F AUSTIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Brazoria County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, S F AUSTIN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate median household income runs about $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which S F AUSTIN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BRAZOS HARBOR, around 4.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around S F AUSTIN EL. On composite proficiency, S F AUSTIN EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

S F AUSTIN EL operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at S F AUSTIN EL has fell 38%, going from 303 students in 2018 to 189 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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