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Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 668 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAMAR CISD·NCES 482658006878
Stephen F Austin Elementary School
1630 PITTS RD, RICHMOND, TX 77469 · (832) 223-1000 · Fort Bend County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 68% of Texas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
186 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 10 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
65.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +5.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
62.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +2.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 5 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 38.0% | 27.0% | 22.0% | 13.0% |
| Mathematics | 33.0% | 29.0% | 23.0% | 15.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 65.0% | 62.0% |
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 61.0% | 61.0% |
| 2021-22 | 69.0% | 63.0% |
| 2020-21 | 60.0% | 60.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
56.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Stephen F Austin Elementary School
Stephen F Austin Elementary School's state test result (56.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen F Austin Elementary School this school | 468 | 39.7% | 56.8% |
| Nancy Neal Elementary School MANSFIELD | 427 | 38.9% | 77.6% |
| Grandview Hills Elementary School AUSTIN | 388 | 40.2% | 39.6% |
| Gene M Reed Elementary School ALLEN | 486 | 43.2% | 46.7% |
| Alan and Andra Perrin Elementary School FORT WORTH | 565 | 39.6% | 30.7% |
| Keeley Elementary School ROWLETT | 582 | 37.8% | 62.9% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Stephen F Austin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Fort Bend County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.8% | #943 of 4,401 | #58 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #825 of 4,466 ▼ 59 | #55 of 113 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #1,038 of 4,466 ▼ 125 | #69 of 113 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #2,497 of 3,998 | #58 of 104 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #2,846 of 4,938 | #95 of 119 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #788 of 4,622 | #23 of 116 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.9% | #250 of 4,628 | #35 of 116 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.7% | #3,948 of 4,789 | #70 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.9% | #947 of 2,838 | #21 of 61 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
468
-128 (-21%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 618
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 468 | 36.1 | 12.9:1 | 40% (186) |
| 2023-24 | 569 | 35.5 | 16.0:1 | 47% (270) |
| 2022-23 | 652 | 40 | 16.3:1 | 44% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 596 | 42 | 14.2:1 | 45% (268) |
| 2017-18 | 607 | 36.1 | 16.8:1 | 27% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 587 | 34 | 17.3:1 | 19% (110) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | 37 | 16.5:1 | 22% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 513 | 35 | 14.7:1 | 4% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 618 | 35 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stephen F Austin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (607 to 468); teachers unchanged (36.1 to 36.1).
About Stephen F Austin Elementary School
As a mid-sized elementary school, Stephen F Austin Elementary School serves students in RICHMOND, Texas. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 468 students.
The 49 schools of LAMAR CISD, including Stephen F Austin Elementary School, enroll 46,786 students.
No group is above 50% at Stephen F Austin Elementary School; the largest is White, at 37%. The school is also 30% Hispanic, 19% Black, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Among Fort Bend County residents, the White share is about 34%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 73, compared with 70 nationally.
The school had 36.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.9:1. The gap from the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas is 2.1 students per teacher. In all, 40% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Fort Bend County is close, at 42%.
Stephen F Austin Elementary School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 68% of Texas public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Stephen F Austin Elementary School would be expected to post about 56.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 56.8%.
In the wider Fort Bend County area, median household income comes to about $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Fort Bend County counts 217 public schools with about 191,372 students.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, Iltexas Richmond Middle School, is the closest to Stephen F Austin Elementary School. Stephen F Austin Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 55.5% proficiency; Stephen F Austin Elementary School posts 56.8%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 21%. The school's ratio dropped from 14.2:1 to 12.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Fort Bend County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
893,767
Census ACS
Median income
$114,041
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
217
191,372 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAMAR CISD
- Fulshear High SchoolHigh · 3,401 students
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Other schools in RICHMOND
- William B Travis High SchoolHigh · 3,114 students
- Foster High SchoolHigh · 2,747 students
- George Bush High SchoolHigh · 2,428 students
- George Ranch High SchoolHigh · 2,337 students
- Briscoe JHMiddle · 2,003 students
- Dr Thomas E Randle High SchoolHigh · 1,966 students
Other Stephen F Austin Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Stephen F Austin Elementary. Stephen F Austin Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Stephen F Austin Elementary SchoolBAYTOWN, TX · 792 students
- Stephen F Austin Elementary SchoolPAMPA, TX · 371 students
Nearby schools
- Iltexas Richmond Middle School0.7 mi · 227
- Iltexas Richmond Elementary School0.7 mi · 704
- James Bowie Middle School1.2 mi · 1,473
- Pecan Grove Elementary School1.5 mi · 639
- Frost Elementary School1.7 mi · 792
- James C Neill Elementary School2.3 mi · 1,253
Frequently asked questions
About Stephen F Austin Elementary SchoolHow large is Stephen F Austin Elementary School?
Stephen F Austin Elementary School enrolls approximately 468 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Stephen F Austin Elementary School serve?
Stephen F Austin Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Stephen F Austin Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Stephen F Austin Elementary School.
How diverse is Stephen F Austin Elementary School?
Stephen F Austin Elementary School reports a student body of 37% White, 30% Hispanic, 19% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Stephen F Austin Elementary School in?
Stephen F Austin Elementary School is part of LAMAR CISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.