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Enrollment
855
Elementary
DISTRICT 629 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEANDER ISD·NCES 482703003044
Whitestone Elementary School
2000 CRYSTAL FALLS PKWY, LEANDER, TX 78641 · (512) 570-7400 · Williamson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL855 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
155 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 132 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 155 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 153 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 164 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 152 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (132) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (152).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
63.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +28.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
47.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +11.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 36.0% | 27.0% | 19.0% | 18.0% |
| Mathematics | 22.0% | 25.0% | 24.0% | 29.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 63.0% | 47.0% |
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.0% | 52.0% |
| 2021-22 | 45.0% | 41.0% |
| 2020-21 | 35.0% | 36.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 66% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Whitestone Elementary School
Whitestone Elementary School's state test result (50.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitestone Elementary School this school | 855 | 18.1% | 50.6% |
| North Elementary School LEANDER | 737 | 18.3% | 47.9% |
| Buckalew Elementary School THE WOODLANDS | 823 | 18.1% | 84.3% |
| Powell Elementary School THE WOODLANDS | 830 | 20.8% | 75.3% |
| Wolf Ranch Elementary School GEORGETOWN | 869 | 22.2% | 47.2% |
| Sampson Elementary School CYPRESS | 900 | 17.1% | 78.1% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Whitestone Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Williamson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #1,372 of 4,401 | #39 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,073 of 4,466 ▲ 279 | #43 of 87 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #1,179 of 4,466 ▼ 57 | #42 of 87 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.0pp | #2,429 of 3,998 | #51 of 78 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 855 | #293 of 4,938 | #7 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,085 of 4,622 | #36 of 88 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.9% | #904 of 4,628 | #39 of 88 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.1% | #4,485 of 4,789 | #61 of 87 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.5% | #730 of 1,307 | #23 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
855
+16 (+2%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 722
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 855 | 63.7 | 13.4:1 | 18% (155) |
| 2023-24 | 888 | 65.9 | 13.5:1 | 20% (181) |
| 2022-23 | 938 | 64.3 | 14.6:1 | 19% (175) |
| 2020-21 | 839 | 63 | 13.3:1 | 21% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 774 | 59.3 | 13.1:1 | 24% (182) |
| 2015-16 | 733 | 53 | 13.8:1 | 36% (263) |
| 2010-11 | 794 | 61 | 13.0:1 | 42% (334) |
| 2000-01 | 678 | 50 | 13.6:1 | 36% (241) |
| 1990-91 | 722 | 39 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whitestone Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (774 to 855); teachers up 8% (59.3 to 63.7).
About Whitestone Elementary School
Whitestone Elementary School is a large elementary school in LEANDER, Texas. Federal data show 855 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
Whitestone Elementary School is one school in a 51-school district, LEANDER ISD, which enrolls 42,680 students.
The largest group at Whitestone Elementary School is White students, at 45%. The remaining students are 35% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census figures show Williamson County is about 60% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
Whitestone Elementary School has 63.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.4:1. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 18%. For comparison, public schools in Williamson County average 29%.
Whitestone Elementary School is 15.3 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Texas.
Looking at the county, Williamson County, the median household earns about $111,340 a year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Williamson County has 208 public schools with about 126,147 students, including Whitestone Elementary School.
William J Winkley Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Whitestone Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 50.8%, higher than Whitestone Elementary School's 50.6%.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 839 students in 2020-21 and 855 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
This page collects posts and questions about Whitestone Elementary School, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Williamson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
672,688
Census ACS
Median income
$111,340
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
208
126,147 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEANDER ISD
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,480 students
- Vandegrift High SchoolHigh · 2,437 students
- Rouse High SchoolHigh · 2,260 students
- Cedar Park High SchoolHigh · 2,155 students
- Leander High SchoolHigh · 2,131 students
- Glenn High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
Other schools in LEANDER
- Rouse High SchoolHigh · 2,260 students
- Leander High SchoolHigh · 2,131 students
- Glenn High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Florence W Stiles Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,493 students
- Stacy Kaye Danielson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,182 students
- Knox Wiley Middle SchoolMiddle · 916 students
Nearby schools
- William J Winkley Elementary School0.7 mi · 763
- Valor Leander1.0 mi · 380
- Patricia Knowles Elementary School1.2 mi · 683
- Running Brushy Middle School1.3 mi · 1,120
- Leander High School1.3 mi · 2,131
- Founders Classical Academy of Leander1.9 mi · 693
Frequently asked questions
About Whitestone Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Whitestone Elementary School?
Whitestone Elementary School enrolls approximately 855 students in grades PK-05.
Is Whitestone Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Whitestone Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Whitestone Elementary School have?
Whitestone Elementary School employs 64 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
How diverse is Whitestone Elementary School?
Whitestone Elementary School reports a student body of 45% White, 35% Hispanic, 3% Black, 12% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Whitestone Elementary School?
Whitestone Elementary School is overseen by LEANDER ISD in Williamson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.