WALNUT SPRINGS EL

Set in DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas, WALNUT SPRINGS EL is a sprawling K-5 school, run under DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD. It enrolls 941 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WALNUT SPRINGS EL sits 81% above that benchmark.

DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 8,712 students. WALNUT SPRINGS EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WALNUT SPRINGS EL logs that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hays County (around 46%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WALNUT SPRINGS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.6%; this one delivers 63.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hays County shows median household income runs about $89,097, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WALNUT SPRINGS EL is one of 63 public schools in Hays County (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students).

DRIPPING SPRINGS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around WALNUT SPRINGS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WALNUT SPRINGS EL at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 66.6%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 31%: 719 students in 2018 compared to 941 in 2025.

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