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Jim Plain Elem

Williamson County · Region 13: Austin · 695 students

Current score
72/1002025-26
Change
−17 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−15.6 ptsvs 87.6 average · 988 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
960 of 988tied with 3 others
C72

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 87 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 87.6 average for 988 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

No academic result met this site’s published threshold for a selected positive signal against Similar economic-disadvantage rate.

Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Jim Plain Elem is rated C by TEA, scoring 72 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 87.6 average for 988 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 17 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 960th of 988 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 3 others).

Put the numbers in context

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  1. Overview
  2. Official improvement and transfer notices
  3. 5 years of ratings
  4. Where the score comes from
  5. Student outcomes
  6. Who this school serves
  7. Student counts behind the percentages
  8. Enrollment over time
  9. Discipline and removal from class
  10. Spending per student
  11. Teachers and actual class size
  12. Where this comes from

Official improvement and transfer notices

Official state and federal designations can carry support, reporting requirements or a family transfer option that a single A–F rating does not explain.

Schools identified for improvement

This school
Listed
Selected comparison
6.9%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 988 rated schools reporting

Schools on the PEG list

This school
Not listed
Selected comparison
0.1%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 988 rated schools reporting

Selected comparison percentages are the share of reporting schools in that group found on each dated list. They are neutral prevalence context; changing the comparison never changes this school's official status.

These are dated TEA statuses, fetched 24 August 2026; they are not added to or subtracted from this site's rating.

5 years of ratings

Follow the solid line to see how this school has changed. Turn comparison lines on or off to add context.

Compare against
90807060 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageJim Plain Elem 8983757672 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated B with 87 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26C7287.6 988 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25C7687.4 973 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24C7586.1 961 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23B8386.5 944 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22B8987.7 929 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement73 C−15.3 vs similar economic context · 968 reporting
  • School Progress68 D−16.4 vs similar economic context · 965 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps69 D−16.2 vs similar economic context · 958 reporting
  • Academic Growth68 D−12.6 vs similar economic context · 947 reporting
  • Relative Performance56 F−24.0 vs similar economic context · 965 reporting
  • Jim Plain Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (988 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement73C7
School Progress68D2
Closing the Gaps69D1
Academic Growth68D2
Relative Performance56F4

Closest to moving up: Closing the Gaps, 1 point below C in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is Student Achievement (73), so School Progress (68) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 73.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level69%−16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 968 reporting
  • Meets grade level45%−20 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 968 reporting
  • Masters grade level20%−13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 968 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level81%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 967 reporting
  • Meets grade level55%−14 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 967 reporting
  • Masters grade level29%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 967 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level61%−22 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 964 reporting
  • Meets grade level37%−22 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 964 reporting
  • Masters grade level15%−13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 964 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level60%−26 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 878 reporting
  • Meets grade level33%−31 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 878 reporting
  • Masters grade level10%−26 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 878 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (988 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
695
Economically disadvantaged
29.3%−0.8 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
16.5%+6.3 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
24.2%+7.0 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
94.1%−1.2 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
15.5%+5.0 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Jim Plain Elem

African American: 9.8%Hispanic: 28.4%White: 42.9%Asian: 9.7%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 9.1%
  • African American 9.8%
  • Hispanic 28.4%
  • White 42.9%
  • Asian 9.7%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 9.1%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 988 reporting for every category shown · 988 in full cohort

African American: 9%Hispanic: 29.4%White: 48.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 8%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 4.9%
  • African American 9%
  • Hispanic 29.4%
  • White 48.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 8%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 4.9%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
693
Economically disadvantaged students
203
Emergent bilingual students
114
Special education students
168

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
75
Students in TEA mobility denominator
593
TEA-published mobility rate
12.6%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 695 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 9 (1.3%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
695

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−9

Decrease · −1.3%

Change since 2021–22
−111

Decrease · −13.8%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
695
Selected comparison
805.1

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 977 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Jim Plain Elem
School yearStudents enrolledJim Plain ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 806 First available year 822.2
2022–23 811 Increase of 5 (0.6%) 824.7
2023–24 859 Increase of 48 (5.9%) 818.5
2024–25 704 Decrease of 155 (18.0%) 814.7
2025–26 695 Decrease of 9 (1.3%) 805.1

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
19

2.5% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
38

4.98 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
763

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
2.5%
Selected comparison
8.7%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 738 rated schools reporting

−6.2 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
4.98
Selected comparison
17.6

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 825 rated schools reporting

−12.6 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Jim Plain Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 745 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2021–22 934 Suppressed — 10 1.07 — 18.8
2022–23 884 10 1.1% 13 1.47 9.5% 19.4
2023–24 947 Suppressed — 14 1.48 — 18.8
2024–25 763 19 2.5% 38 4.98 8.7% 17.6
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Jim Plain Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 19 2.5% 38 4.98 8.7% 17.6
In-school suspensions 19 2.5% 35 4.59 7.8% 13.8
Out-of-school suspensions Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$5k$13k$22k20182020202220242025
  • Jim Plain Elem
  • Parent district: Leander ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$10,084
Selected comparison
$11,635

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 972 rated schools reporting

−$1,551 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $10,084 per student for this campus, $20,543 per student for its parent district, Leander ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearJim Plain ElemParent district: Leander ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$6,011$11,627$13,054$7,638 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 876 rated schools reporting
2019$5,660$15,265$13,108$7,764 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 890 rated schools reporting
2020$6,696$9,781$14,058$8,105 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 901 rated schools reporting
2021$8,388$14,703$14,797$8,516 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 910 rated schools reporting
2022$7,644$14,776$15,708$9,731 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 928 rated schools reporting
2023$8,583$14,111$16,792$10,278 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 945 rated schools reporting
2024$8,581$18,103$18,125$11,391 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 960 rated schools reporting
2025$10,084$20,543$18,972$11,635 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 972 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$64,362−$3,921 vs similar economic context
Teachers
57+4.3 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
12.2−2.3 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Jim Plain Elem

Beginning: 7.1%1 to 5 years: 24.7%6 to 10 years: 23.1%11 to 20 years: 25%21 to 30 years: 20.1%
  • Beginning 7.1%
  • 1 to 5 years 24.7%
  • 6 to 10 years 23.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 25%
  • 21 to 30 years 20.1%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 988 reporting for every category shown · 988 in full cohort

Beginning: 4.8%1 to 5 years: 22.4%6 to 10 years: 19.6%11 to 20 years: 32.4%21 to 30 years: 17.3%Over 30 years: 3.3%
  • Beginning 4.8%
  • 1 to 5 years 22.4%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.6%
  • 11 to 20 years 32.4%
  • 21 to 30 years 17.3%
  • Over 30 years 3.3%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Jim Plain Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classJim Plain Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten17.618.5
Grade 119.519
Grade 219.819.6
Grade 318.220.4
Grade 417.220
Grade 520.921.6
Grade 624.518.7

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 7 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 246913116.