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SPICEWOOD EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 SPICEWOOD EL
SPICEWOOD EL, a reasonably sized elementary campus in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by ROUND ROCK ISD, caters to 691 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 33% above typical.
ROUND ROCK ISD runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 46,954 students. SPICEWOOD EL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, SPICEWOOD EL shows that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 32% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SPICEWOOD EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, SPICEWOOD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.2%, the actual is 79.5%, a residual of +8.2 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Travis County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which SPICEWOOD EL is one.
ANDERSON MILL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SPICEWOOD EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SPICEWOOD EL has contracted 14%, going from 807 students in 2018 to 691 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 44% across the same window.
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Travis County at a glance
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