Casey Elementary School

Size

Casey Elementary School is the 23rd largest of Austin ISD's 78 elementary schools; its 544 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 400; Casey Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 94 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 68, against an average of 78 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% fewer students than kindergarten (70 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 94 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 65.6% here and 54.4% across Austin ISD. White students are next, at 19.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

56.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 44.3 full-time-equivalent teachers for 544 students, Casey Elementary School has 12.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 544 students would have about 36.8 teachers, so Casey Elementary School has 7.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Casey Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Kocurek Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 72 other elementary schools, 31 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.