Pflugerville Independent School District (Isd)

The Pflugerville Independent School District (Isd) serves 34 schools—22 elementary, 7 middle, and 5 high schools—in the Austin area, with an overall state ranking in the 49th percentile and a 2-star rating, indicating performance slightly below the Texas average but with wide variation between schools.

Standout high-performing schools include Hendrickson High School, which ranks in the 85th percentile (4 stars) and leads the district with a 96.9% graduation rate and test scores far above state averages in Biology (86.56% proficient) and English (75-79% proficient). At the middle school level, Kelly Lane Middle ranks in the 89th percentile (4 stars) and excels in Algebra I EOC (87.93% proficient), while Murchison Elementary is the top elementary school at the 92nd percentile (5 stars), with 3rd-grade Reading (82.83%) and 4th-grade Math (87.2%) nearly double state averages. In contrast, Pflugerville Academic And Career Education (Pace) is the lowest-performing school at the 10th percentile (0 stars) with a 14.6% dropout rate, and Dessau Elementary ranks at the 2nd percentile (0 stars) with proficiency rates as low as 4.4% in 5th-grade Science.

A key finding is the "Algebra I EOC anomaly": middle schools like Westview Middle show only 4% proficiency in 7th-grade Math but 82.5% proficiency in Algebra I EOC, indicating strong acceleration for advanced students but a struggle to bring most students to grade level. Spending patterns also reveal an inverse relationship—lowest-spending schools like Mott Elementary ($8,538 per student) often perform well, while highest-spending schools like Northwest Elementary ($14,232) face greater challenges. Performance trajectories vary, with Riojas Elementary improving from the 87th to 91st percentile, while Windermere Elementary dropped from the 62nd to 42nd percentile over three years.