UHLAND EL

UHLAND EL is an elementary school of high-enrollment scale in UHLAND, Texas, one of the schools within HAYS CISD, caters to 919 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 77% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HAYS CISD comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 24,330 students; UHLAND EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, UHLAND EL logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Hays County's rate of about 46%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, UHLAND EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Hays County reports that median household income runs about $89,097, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Hays County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students), UHLAND EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CAMINO REAL EL, around 2.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UHLAND EL. On composite proficiency, UHLAND EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.