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STEINER RANCH EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 35 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 STEINER RANCH EL
STEINER RANCH EL operates as an intimate elementary campus in AUSTIN, Texas, one of the schools within LEANDER ISD. Current enrollment sits at 417 students spanning grades K through 5.
Across the 51 schools in LEANDER ISD (42,680 students total), STEINER RANCH EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, STEINER RANCH EL reports that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 22% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Travis County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting STEINER RANCH EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Travis County's rate of about 54%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEINER RANCH EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.8%.
In the area at large, census data for Travis County shows the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), STEINER RANCH EL is one campus in the mix.
LAURA WELCH BUSH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STEINER RANCH EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.8%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Looking at the recent track record. STEINER RANCH EL's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 543 (now 417). The White share of enrollment declined from 65% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.
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