ZILKER EL

ZILKER EL, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in AUSTIN, Texas, one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD, hosts 506 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

AUSTIN ISD comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 72,272 students; ZILKER EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ZILKER EL reports that White students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Travis County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ZILKER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 22% of students at ZILKER 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 somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ZILKER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 67.8%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,611, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. ZILKER EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

Nearest neighbor: BARTON HILLS EL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ZILKER EL at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 51.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. ZILKER EL's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 506). Hispanic enrollment moved from 33% to 27% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.