T J Austin Elementary School

Size

Of the 18 elementary schools in Tyler ISD, T J Austin Elementary School is the 16th largest, with 1.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 489 students, so T J 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 5 with 58 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 41, against an average of 51 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% more students than kindergarten (58 against 50). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 53 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 61.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Tyler ISD (48.4%). Black students are next, at 32.6%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

98.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.3% across Tyler 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

T J Austin Elementary School has 25.21 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 359 students would have about 24.3 teachers, so T J Austin Elementary School has about as many as that.

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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Griffin Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 14 elementary schools within 5 miles and 22 within 10 miles.

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