WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY

WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY is one of the close-knit elementary-level communitys in AUSTIN, Texas, part of WAYSIDE SCHOOLS, with 354 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 32% below typical.

Within WAYSIDE SCHOOLS, which oversees 4 schools and 1,787 students, WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY shows that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 7% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 77% of students at WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.2%; actual is 19.4%, a gap of -20.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Travis County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

IDEA BLUFF SPRINGS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. WAYSIDE ALTAMIRA ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 354). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 74% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.