Doss Elementary School

Size

Of the 78 elementary schools in Austin ISD, Doss Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 1.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 601 students, so Doss 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 grade 2 with 155 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 56, against an average of 133 per grade. This year grade 5 has 23% more students than kindergarten (151 against 123). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 56 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 56.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Austin ISD (30.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 23.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

19.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Doss Elementary School has 63.85 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 930 students would have about 62.8 teachers, so Doss Elementary School has 1.1 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 Gullett Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 33 elementary schools within 5 miles and 120 within 10 miles.

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