WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL

WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL is one of the medium-sized primary schools in LEANDER, Texas, overseen by LEANDER ISD, with 763 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LEANDER ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 42,680 students; WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 12% of students at WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Williamson County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Williamson County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,340 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL is one of 208 public schools in Williamson County (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students).

PATRICIA KNOWLES EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM J WINKLEY EL has increased 12%, going from 684 students in 2018 to 763 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 50% across the same window.

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