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Best Elementary Schools In Austin
The 2020 best Austin elementary schools lists on this page identifies the traditional open enrollment elementary schools located in the Austin area that scored highest on the 2019 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) evaluations administered statewide by the Texas Education Agency. To make the evaluation of each schools’s academic performance more precise and meaningful, an academic performance index that indicates the relative combined STAAR score of each Texas elementary and intermediate school has been constructed. This mean that a school with an academic performance index level at 93.4, for example, has a combined STAAR score that equals 93.4 percent the combined score of the state’s top performing elementary school. Each school also has been assigned an academic performance score based on its rank in the overall academic performance index. Schools that rank among top 10 percent of schools included this study received an academic performance score of 10, schools in the next lower ninth decile received a score of 9, and so on. Accountability ratings awarded by the TEA in were not considered in this ranking analysis since in addition to STAAR scores these ratings take into account factors that generally have no meaningful linkage to the academic performance of individual students, such as changes in student performance at the school on the STAAR evaluations from one year to the next. Such factors may be meaningful to administrators and teachers, but not to most parents or students. Also not considered in this study are frequently, sometimes purposefully, misleading subjective factors such as opinions of self-selected contributors of anonymous parent and student reviews and "expert insights" regarding teacher quality.
Clicking on this 2020 top Austin open enrollment elementary schools jump link displays this ranking view. The high schools identified in this list also are among the top ranked elementary schools in the state of Texas. A comprehensive list of Austin area public elementary schools and additional information about how the rankings were derived are provided on this complete Austin public elementary schools rankings page.
Open enrollment elementary schools
Of the 285 Austin public elementary and intermediate schools included in this best Austin elementary schools analysis, 259 are traditional open enrollment schools which are operated by local independent schools districts and where the only requirement for admittance is student residency in the school's attendance area. The Austin open enrollment schools that ranked highest in this 2020 analysis and the Austin towns and cities they serve are listed below.
The data presented in this table can be sorted by clicking on the table headings. You also can limit the data display to a single school or school district by typing the name of a school or school district in the Search box. Additional performance and other information for middle schools located in the communities profiled on this website can be accessed by clicking on the name of the school.
2020 top Austin open enrollment elementary schools
| rank | campus | district | students | academic performance index | accountability rating | STAAR scaled score | attended by students living in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canyon Creek Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 438 | 97.8 | A | 97 | Austin |
| 2 | Cactus Ranch Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 957 | 94.6 | A | 97 | Round Rock |
| 3 | Laurel Mountain Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 730 | 93.3 | A | 96 | Austin |
| 4 | Sommer Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 1,251 | 92.4 | A | 96 | Austin, Cedar Park |
| 5 | Forest Trail Elementary School | Eanes ISD | 569 | 89.5 | A | 96 | Austin |
| 6 | England Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 1,224 | 89.1 | A | 96 | Austin, Round Rock |
| 7 | Spicewood Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 846 | 87.0 | A | 95 | Austin |
| 8 | Bush Elementary School | Leander ISD | 666 | 85.3 | A | 95 | Austin |
| 9 | Kiker Elementary School | Austin ISD | 1,121 | 84.0 | A | 95 | Austin |
| 10 | Barton Creek Elementary School | Eanes ISD | 488 | 81.7 | A | 94 | Austin |
| 11 | River Ridge Elementary School | Leander ISD | 684 | 81.1 | A | 94 | Austin |
| 12 | Caraway Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 870 | 80.8 | A | 94 | Austin |
| 13 | Lake Pointe Elementary School | Lake Travis ISD | 697 | 80.5 | A | 94 | Austin, Bee Cave |
| 14 | Cedar Creek Elementary School | Eanes ISD | 522 | 80.3 | A | 94 | Austin |
| 15 | Clayton Elementary School | Austin ISD | 825 | 79.6 | A | 94 | Austin |
| 16 | Casis Elementary School | Austin ISD | 743 | 78.6 | A | 94 | Austin |
| 17 | Mills Elementary School | Austin ISD | 850 | 77.8 | A | 93 | Austin |
| 18 | Doss Elementary School | Austin ISD | 825 | 77.8 | A | 93 | Austin |
| 19 | Deer Creek Elementary School | Leander ISD | 656 | 76.8 | A | 93 | Cedar Park |
| 20 | Bridge Point Elementary School | Eanes ISD | 636 | 76.4 | A | 93 | Austin |
| 21 | Lakeway Elementary School | Lake Travis ISD | 692 | 76.2 | A | 93 | Austin, Lakeway, The Hills |
| 22 | Great Oaks Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 756 | 75.9 | A | 93 | Austin, Round Rock |
| 23 | Rutledge Elementary School | Leander ISD | 904 | 75.9 | A | 93 | Austin, Cedar Park |
| 24 | Murchison Elementary School | Pflugerville ISD | 859 | 75.5 | A | 93 | Hutto, Pflugerville, Round Rock |
| 25 | Chandler Oaks Elementary School | Round Rock ISD | 567 | 75.2 | A | 93 | Round Rock |
Similar Austin area high schools and middle schools student performance ranked lists are available on these best Austin public high schools and best Austin public middle schools pages. Rankings for area school districts are shown on this best Austin school districts page.
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