Stephen F Austin Elementary School

Size

Stephen F Austin Elementary School is the 29th largest of Lamar CISD's 33 elementary schools; its 468 students are 1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 754 students, so Stephen F Austin 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 3 with 86 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 10, against an average of 67 per grade. This year grade 5 has 38% more students than kindergarten (83 against 60). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 10 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 37% of enrollment, a higher share than across Lamar CISD (22%). Hispanic students are next, at 29.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

39.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 43% across Lamar CISD 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

Stephen F Austin Elementary School has 36.14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 468 students would have about 31.6 teachers, so Stephen F Austin Elementary School has 4.5 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Iltexas Richmond Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas). There are 18 elementary schools within 5 miles and 95 within 10 miles.

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