WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL

WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in SPICEWOOD, Texas, one of the schools within LAKE TRAVIS ISD, educateing 591 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within LAKE TRAVIS ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 11,008 students, WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL lists that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, On paper, WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 8% of students at WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of -13.8 points.

Around the school, Travis County reports that median household income runs about $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

LAKE TRAVIS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 62.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. WEST CYPRESS HILLS EL's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 797 (now 591).

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