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STEINER RANCH EL
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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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