Forest Trail El, Austin TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Forest Trail El

Forest Trail Elementary sits along Loop 360 in the 78746 zip code, one of the most affluent and highest-demand residential corridors in the Austin metro. It serves kindergarten through fifth grade within Eanes ISD, a suburban district that occupies a distinct, well-resourced pocket within otherwise sprawling Travis County.

The school's academic results on the Texas STAAR assessment are strong. Reading and language arts proficiency is high across every tested grade, and math results hold up across grades three through five, with the grade-six cohort tested at this campus showing exceptionally high math proficiency. Science proficiency at the fifth-grade level is somewhat lower than the school's other subjects, which is worth asking the school about if that matters to your family. Zooming out to the school's overall proficiency index, Forest Trail places in the top quartile relative to districts across Travis County, a meaningful position in a county that includes Austin ISD and a wide range of urban and suburban systems. Multi-year trend data was available for only a single point, so direction of travel over time cannot be described here.

The enrollment is mid-sized for an elementary school, spread across six grade levels from kindergarten through fifth. The student body is predominantly white, with Asian students making up the next largest share, followed by Hispanic students. There is very little demographic diversity by the measures provided. Free and reduced-price lunch data was not reported, which limits what can be said about the school's economic composition, though the surrounding housing market gives strong context: home values in this zip code are dramatically higher than the Texas state benchmark and well above national norms, placing this among the most expensive residential zones in the state. Renting here also consumes a substantial share of a typical household income. For families evaluating whether they can afford to live in the attendance zone, those figures will be the dominant practical constraint.

Eanes ISD as a district came up with no parent-relevant publicly reported changes in the research conducted for this profile; the search was exhausted without finding documented recent shifts in leadership, programs, or policy. That absence is worth noting, not as a concern, but as a gap. If your family is evaluating a specific program, boundary change, or district-level initiative, it is worth going directly to the district.

Austin itself is a large, fast-growing city. The area around Loop 360 and the 78746 zip code sits on the western edge of Austin proper and connects to the Hill Country, offering a more suburban character than central Austin neighborhoods like Hyde Park or East Austin. The city as a whole is car-oriented outside a walkable downtown core, and the Loop 360 corridor particularly so. Major employers across the metro include Dell, Apple, Tesla, Oracle, Samsung, and state government, giving the broader Austin economy a strong technology and public-sector base that shapes household income levels in neighborhoods like this one.

No civil rights data, disciplinary data, special education enrollment rates, or English learner rates were available for Forest Trail in the data provided. Families with children who receive special education services or language support should ask the school directly about how those programs are structured.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 369%

School 69% · District 75% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 477%

School 77% · District 74% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 44 pts above county median

Grade 575%

School 75% · District 66% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Grade 697%

School 97% · District 80% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 63 pts above state median · ▲ 67 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 385%

School 85% · District 82% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 484%

School 84% · District 85% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 591%

School 91% · District 88% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

Science

Grade 565%

School 65% · District 56% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.