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VETERANS HILL EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About VETERANS HILL EL
VETERANS HILL EL is an average-sized elementary-level community in ROUND ROCK, Texas, overseen by HUTTO ISD. The school instructs 708 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
VETERANS HILL EL is one of 15 schools operated by HUTTO ISD, a district that caters to 10,688 students overall.
On demographics, VETERANS HILL EL records that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 23% White, 12% Asian, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Williamson County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting VETERANS HILL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Williamson County's rate of about 29%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), VETERANS HILL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -13.6 points.
In the broader community, census data for Williamson County shows median household income runs about $111,340, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Williamson County runs 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), of which VETERANS HILL EL is one.
The closest other public school is BENJAMIN DOC KERLEY EL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, VETERANS HILL EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 725 students in 2018 compared to 708 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 49% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.
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