Quality of RRISD due to the children of UT professors?

[GreenPlastic]

Originally Posted by traceyr13

Unfortunately it did not work out with St. Andrew's...but everything happens for a reason because I was offered a great position MUCH closer to home for more money, so all's well that ends well!

Well, closer to home and more money sounds like things worked out just fine. Congrats!

[miniwheat]

RRISD has quality because most of its residents are middle-to-high income families and the property tax rates are relatively high. Simple economics. Nothing else.

[jwb123]

These were basically my thoughts too! Thanks everyone!

[Austin97]

Originally Posted by Jenbar

Someone on another forum here made a weird comment to me that the quality of RRISD education was due to the children of UT professors living in the district.

Seems unlikely to me, because all the parents I know are either in the tech sector, local government, or teaching in the district themselves. I am not saying that zero professors live here, but I would think that if it was enough to artificially inflate the quality of education (test numbers etc) someone like me who is active in the school we attend, and the district as a whole, I would have met some professors!

For context, this was in regards to a comment I made about the children in RRISD being ahead in math, in comparison to my son, when we moved here.

Anyway, what do you think?

Personally, I would think if I was a UT professor, I would be living in Eanes, or my kids would be in private school and we could live closer to campus!

Agree that most UT professors live central. RR (westwood) is good because of all the foreign high tech workers. There is an extremely high percentage of indian-asians. They are extremely academically focused and raise the bar for everyone. I live in the part of great hills that feeds into westwood and I would say my neighboorhood feels like 20%-25% indian-asian. Westwood is 16% asian which is much higher than the rest of austin (or the rest of round rock for that matter). Eanes is out of the price range for most upper middle class one income tech families so they are settling in our area.

Here is a link, you can look at the rest of the schools in the link:
Laurel Mountain Elementary School (Austin, TX) - contact info, student demographics, map, class sizes

Here are the demographics for westwood.
Latino - 10.1%
White - 69.9%
Black - 3.6%
Asian - 16.1%
Native American - 0.2%

We feed into laurel mountain for elementary school:
Latino - 5.7%
White - 49.8%
Black - 1.9%
Asian - 42.0%
Native American - 0.7%