Schools in Pflugerville
Pflugerville ISD, the district serving most of the city, earned a genuinely improved "B" overall rating from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for 2025-26 -- up from a C in 2025, its highest mark in five years -- but that academic improvement sits alongside a real, disclosed budget crisis: the district is closing four elementary schools after the 2026-27 school year amid a growing deficit and enrollment that has fallen even as the city itself keeps growing.
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Learn moreA Genuine Academic Improvement
Pflugerville ISD's TEA A-F accountability rating rose from a C to a B for 2025-26, scoring 81 out of 100 possible points -- the district's highest rating in five years, per Community Impact and Hoodline coverage of the August 2026 TEA release. The improvement was broad-based: 11 campuses saw gains, most notably Timmerman Elementary, which jumped from an F to a B, and Westview Middle School, which improved from an F to a C, with nine other campuses each gaining a full letter grade. District officials credited campus-level leadership and teachers rather than any single district-wide fix.
A Real, Disclosed Budget Crisis Behind the Scenes
At the same time, Pflugerville ISD's board of trustees voted in May 2026 to close four elementary schools -- Dessau, Parmer Lane, Pflugerville, and Windermere -- after the 2026-27 school year, driven by an $11 million budget deficit in the current school year and a projected $18 million deficit for 2026-27, per Community Impact and KVUE coverage. This is a genuine, disclosed tension worth stating plainly: the district is academically improving even as it is financially strained enough to close a meaningful number of campuses.
Why Enrollment Has Fallen in a Growing City
The closures are driven primarily by declining district enrollment, which has dropped more than 5% since 2019 -- from 26,353 students to 25,046 in 2025 -- even as Pflugerville's own population has continued growing, per KUT and Austin Current reporting. Contributing factors cited include the growth of homeschooling and the presence of more than a dozen charter schools within Pflugerville ISD's boundaries, with Dessau Elementary specifically cited as having lost more students to charter and private schools than any other campus in the district. This is a real, worth-knowing structural dynamic: city population growth and district enrollment are not moving in the same direction here.
For a Specific Address
Given both the district-wide improvement and the real spread between individual campus ratings (some going from F to B in a single year, per the section above), plus the ongoing closure and boundary changes affecting four elementary schools, a family evaluating a specific Pflugerville address should check that address's currently assigned school(s) directly via TEA's TXschools.gov database or Pflugerville ISD's own boundary maps, rather than relying on either the district-wide B rating or any single campus's historical rating.
Key takeaways
- Pflugerville ISD earned a 'B' overall TEA rating for 2025-26 (up from C in 2025), scoring 81/100 -- its highest rating in five years, with broad-based campus-level gains including two schools moving from F to B/C.
- That improvement coexists with a real budget crisis: an $11 million deficit this year and a projected $18 million deficit for 2026-27 drove the board to vote in May 2026 to close four elementary schools (Dessau, Parmer Lane, Pflugerville, Windermere) after 2026-27.
- District enrollment has fallen more than 5% since 2019 (26,353 to 25,046 in 2025) even as the city's population has grown, driven partly by growth in homeschooling and the more than a dozen charter schools operating within district boundaries.
- Check TEA's TXschools.gov database or Pflugerville ISD's own boundary maps for the specific school(s) assigned to any target address, given both the real campus-to-campus rating spread and the ongoing closures affecting district boundaries.
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