WALNUT CREEK EL

WALNUT CREEK EL is a mid-sized elementary campus in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by AUSTIN ISD. The school caters to 496 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 123 schools in AUSTIN ISD (72,272 students total), WALNUT CREEK EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WALNUT CREEK EL records that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 7% White, 5% Black, 5% Asian. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WALNUT CREEK EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at WALNUT CREEK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Travis County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, WALNUT CREEK EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.6%; this one comes in at 16.9%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Travis County shows the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which WALNUT CREEK EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MCBEE EL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WALNUT CREEK EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 642 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 10% to 5% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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