SMITH EL

Set in AUSTIN, Texas, SMITH EL is a mid-tier elementary school, part of DEL VALLE ISD. It instructs 566 students across grades pre-K through 5.

DEL VALLE ISD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 11,715 students; SMITH EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, SMITH EL records that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 7% Black, 5% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SMITH EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SMITH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of +8.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Travis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. SMITH EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SMITH EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

SMITH EL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SMITH EL has shrank 23%, going from 735 students in 2018 to 566 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.