Dawson Elementary School

Size

Of the 78 elementary schools in Austin ISD, Dawson Elementary School is the 77th largest, with 0.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 444 students, so Dawson Elementary School is smaller 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 grade 5 with 45 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 18, against an average of 28 per grade. This year grade 5 has 88% more students than kindergarten (45 against 24). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 18 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 73% of enrollment, a higher share than across Austin ISD (54.4%). White students are next, at 11.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.2% of students qualify 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

Dawson Elementary School has 22.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 196 students would have about 13.2 teachers, so Dawson Elementary School has 8.8 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Galindo Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 46 elementary schools within 5 miles and 104 within 10 miles.

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