River Place Elementary School is in the Leander ISD and earned a 7/10 rating from Great School’s as of October 2026. The kindergarten through 5th grade campus sits on Sitio Del Rio Boulevard inside the River Place neighborhood in Northwest Austin’s 78730 zip code, just off River Place Boulevard and RM 2222. Although the school has an Austin address, it belongs to Leander ISD, which serves the north shore of Lake Austin. Its attendance zone takes in River Place, Long Canyon (Leander ISD section), Westminster Glen, Glenlake, River Pointe, and the Four Points-area communities of Preserve at Four Points and Woods of Four Points. Below you’ll find the school’s current Texas Education Agency rating, its programs, the zone and feeder schools, and three years of MLS sales data for homes zoned to the school.
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River Place Elementary School Snapshot
- Address: 6500 Sitio Del Rio Blvd., Austin, TX 78730
- Phone: (512) 570-6900
- School District: Leander ISD
- Grades Served: Kindergarten through 5th grade (Pre-K for River Place families is housed at Grandview Hills Elementary)
- Enrollment: About 587 students (2024-25)
- Student-Teacher Ratio: 11.9 to 1 (2024-25)
- Principal: Dr. Stacy Steele
- School Day: Doors open at 7:10 a.m., classes run 7:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.
- Mascot: Titans
- Feeder Schools: Four Points Middle School, then Vandegrift High School
- GreatSchools Rating: It is 7/10 as of October 2026.
River Place is a mid-sized Leander ISD elementary with small classes. In 2024-25, about 17% of students were identified as gifted and talented, about 23% received special education services, about 8% were emerging bilingual students, and about 30% were economically disadvantaged. Enrollment has eased from 640 students in 2021-22 to 587 in 2024-25. That is still comfortably above the 400- and 500-student thresholds Leander ISD adopted in December 2025 for flagging campuses for possible consolidation, and River Place was not on any of the district’s consolidation lists. Keep in mind that the GreatSchools rating above and the TEA accountability rating below measure different things, so the two can tell somewhat different stories.
Academic Performance: Texas Education Agency Accountability Rating
River Place Elementary received a B (84) in the Texas Education Agency’s 2025-26 accountability ratings, up from a C (79) in 2024-25 and back to the same score it earned in 2023-24. The improvement came from the School Progress domain, which measures how much students grew on STAAR from one year to the next and rose from a C (79) to a B (87). Student Achievement held at a B (83), and Closing the Gaps stayed at a C (77). TEA also identified the campus for Targeted Support and Improvement in 2025-26, a federal designation that means at least one student group underperformed and the school will build an improvement plan for it. It is the first year River Place has carried that designation. For comparison, Leander ISD as a whole earned a B (87).
- Overall TEA Rating (2025-26): B (84)
- Student Achievement: B (83)
- School Progress: B (87)
- Closing the Gaps: C (77)
- Prior Overall Ratings: C (79) in 2024-25, B (84) in 2023-24, B (87) in 2022-23, B (83) in 2021-22, and B (86) in 2018-19 (no ratings were issued for 2019-20 or 2020-21)
Under TEA’s scale, an A reflects exemplary performance, B is recognized, C is acceptable, D needs improvement, and F is unacceptable. The 2022-23 and 2023-24 ratings were delayed by litigation over TEA’s methodology and were not released until 2025.
Source: Texas Education Agency, 2026 Accountability Summary for River Place Elementary (campus 246913118), and prior-year TEA accountability summaries. Enrollment and student-group figures from TEA’s 2024-25 Texas Academic Performance Report.
Programs at River Place Elementary
Here is what River Place and Leander ISD publish for the campus:
- Gifted and Talented: Identified students take part in QUEST, Leander ISD’s weekly project-based elementary GT enrichment. About 17% of River Place students were identified for GT in 2024-25.
- English Learners: English learners are served through ESL. River Place is not one of Leander ISD’s dual language campuses (those are Bagdad, Knowles, Reed and Whitestone).
- Pre-K: River Place is not a Pre-K site. Leander ISD assigns River Place families to Grandview Hills Elementary for Pre-K, with bilingual Pre-K offered at other district campuses.
- Choir: The Titan Trebles, an after-school choir for 4th and 5th graders, who can also audition for the Leander ISD district choir.
- STEAM Teams: Destination Imagination, where student teams solve open-ended STEAM challenges, and a PTA-sponsored FIRST LEGO League team that works on coding and engineering problems.
- After-School Enrichment: A Drama/Improv Club and a Jewelry Club for grades 3-5, plus a PTA-run Spanish program.
- Student Support: Counseling, special education services, a campus library, the HEROES mentoring program, and Watch D.O.G.S., which brings fathers and father figures onto campus as volunteers.
- Before and After School: YMCA after-school care runs on site until 6:30 p.m., as it does at all Leander ISD elementaries.
- Family Involvement: The campus has an active PTA (River Place PTA).
Clubs and schedules change from year to year, so check the River Place Elementary website for the current list.
Where is River Place Elementary School?
River Place Elementary is located at:
6500 Sitio Del Rio Blvd.
Austin, TX 78730
River Place Elementary Attendance Zone Map
River Place’s attendance zone covers about 16 square miles of hilly, wooded land along the north shore of Lake Austin. It runs from the lake north past RM 2222 to the Four Points area near RM 620. Much of the zone is Balcones Canyonlands preserve land, so homes are concentrated in River Place itself and in a handful of neighborhoods along River Place Boulevard, RM 2222 and Bell Mountain Drive. Neighboring zones are Grandview Hills to the north and Steiner Ranch and River Ridge to the west. The eastern edge is the Leander ISD and Austin ISD line. To confirm the school for a specific address, use Leander ISD’s School Zone Finder.
Two boundary quirks are worth knowing about. Long Canyon is split between the two districts: the Leander ISD section is zoned to River Place, while the Austin ISD section is served by Highland Park Elementary. McCormick Ranch on Lake Austin, despite its River Place-area location, is zoned to River Ridge Elementary. Leander ISD did not change River Place’s boundaries for 2026-27. The only rezoning that year was the Faubion Elementary consolidation, which does not affect this zone.
Homes Zoned to River Place Elementary: Market Stats
The figures below cover single-family homes sold through Unlock MLS that are zoned to River Place Elementary. We pulled every Leander ISD sale in the surrounding zip codes. Then we checked each address against Leander ISD’s official attendance-zone map and kept only the ones inside it, regardless of which school the listing named. Most of these sales are in River Place itself, with smaller numbers in Westminster Glen, Glenlake, Long Canyon, Preserve at Four Points and Woods of Four Points.
3-Year Closed Sales Trend
| Period | Homes Sold | Median Sale Price | Median $/Sq Ft | Sale-to-List Ratio | Median Days on Market |
| Sept 2022 – Aug 2023 | 77 | $1,000,000 | $330.03 | 96.6% | 23 days |
| Sept 2023 – Aug 2024 | 70 | $1,225,500 | $330.04 | 97.6% | 22 days |
| Sept 2024 – Aug 2025 | 70 | $1,280,000 | $342.51 | 96.6% | 33 days |
| Trailing 12 Months (Sept 2025 – Aug 2026) | 85 | $1,080,000 | $328.04 | 96.7% | 26 days |
Data sourced from Unlock MLS. Statistics deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Single-family homes only, including condo-regime homes. Each sale was geocoded and checked against Leander ISD’s official attendance-zone boundaries. MLS school tags here are very accurate: we left out one McCormick Ranch sale tagged River Place that sits in the River Ridge zone, added four in-zone sales tagged to other schools, and removed one duplicate record. Sale-to-list ratio is the median of each sale’s close price divided by its final list price.
The median sale price in the River Place zone was $1,080,000 over the trailing twelve months. That is 8.0% higher than the $1,000,000 median of 2022-23, but 15.6% below the 2024-25 peak of $1,280,000. The yearly median swings with the mix of homes sold, which ranges from condo-regime homes around $500,000 to custom estates near $6 million. Price per square foot is the steadier measure, and it has barely moved: $330.03 in 2022-23 and $328.04 over the past year, a change of 0.6%. It is down 4.2% from the 2024-25 high of $342.51.
Sales volume picked up to 85 homes over the past twelve months, from 70 in each of the two prior years. That includes nine newly built homes, most of them in the Milky Way at River Place section, priced from about $1.8 million to $2.9 million, which helped hold the median above $1 million. Homes are still selling at a fairly steady pace, with a median of 26 days on market, and sellers received a median of 96.7% of their final list price.
Current Inventory Snapshot
As of October 1, 2026
| Status | Count | Median List Price | Median Days on Market |
| Active | 28 | $1,275,000 | 83 days |
| Active Under Contract | 9 | $998,000 | 41 days |
| Pending | 2 | $1,569,495 | 98 days |
Data sourced from Unlock MLS. Statistics deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Same zone check as above; two in-zone listings tagged to other schools were added. Days on market is the median among listings that report it.
39 homes are currently active, under contract, or pending in the River Place zone. With 28 active listings against about 7 sales a month over the past year, the zone has roughly 4 months of inventory, which is a fairly balanced market.
The median active list price of $1,275,000 is well above the trailing-twelve-month median sale price of $1,080,000. That is partly because the active list leans toward larger homes, with 9 of the 28 priced above $1.8 million. Active listings have been on the market a median of 83 days, so buyers have some room to negotiate. The pending median is based on only two homes, so it doesn’t say much about the typical home in the zone.
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Neighborhoods Zoned to River Place Elementary
The neighborhoods below have their own guides and are zoned to River Place Elementary. River Place and its gated Watersedge enclave account for most of the zone’s homes. Only the Leander ISD section of Long Canyon is zoned here. Smaller pockets without their own guides include the Ribelin Ranch area north of RM 2222.
River Place
2-7 beds, 2-11 baths, 1,500-10,200 sqft, High $400,000s – $2.9MMs
Watersedge at River Place
4-6 beds, 5-11 baths, 5,369-10,198 sqft, $6MMs – $6MMs
Long Canyon
2-6 beds, 2-7 baths, 1,800-7,200 sqft, $1.1MMs – $2.2MMs
Westminster Glen
3-6 beds, 3-7 baths, 3,000-6,800 sqft, $1.2MMs – $2.6MMs
Glenlake
3-5 beds, 2-7 baths, 2,000-5,200 sqft, Low $700,000s – $1.6MMs
River Pointe
Luxury Estates on Lake Austin from the $1MM’s – $6MM
Preserve at Four Points
3-5 beds, 2-4 baths, 1,800-3,200 sqft, High $400,000s – Mid $600,000s
Woods of Four Points
3-5 beds, 3-4 baths, 2,258-2,800 sqft, High $500,000s – Low $600,000s
Feeder Middle and High School
Every home zoned to River Place Elementary feeds the same middle and high school. Both campuses sit next to each other on McNeil Drive near Four Points:
Feeder Middle School
- Four Points Middle School
9700 McNeil Dr., Austin, TX 78750
Great Schools Rating: 8/10
Feeder High School
- Vandegrift High School
9500 McNeil Dr., Austin, TX 78750
Great Schools Rating: 8/10
Source: Leander ISD’s attendance-zone boundaries (School Zone Finder). The entire River Place zone falls inside the Four Points Middle and Vandegrift High zones. Confirm with the district for any specific address.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ratings and Zoning
River Place earned a B with a score of 84 in the 2025-26 TEA accountability ratings. Student Achievement was a B (83), School Progress a B (87), and Closing the Gaps a C (77). It earned a C (79) in 2024-25 and a B (84) in 2023-24.
TEA identifies a campus for Targeted Support and Improvement when at least one student group underperforms. River Place received the designation for the first time in 2025-26, even as its overall rating rose to a B. The school will follow an improvement plan for the student group involved.
River Place (including Watersedge and Milky Way at River Place), Westminster Glen, Glenlake, River Pointe, the Leander ISD section of Long Canyon, Preserve at Four Points and Woods of Four Points are zoned to the school.
No. Long Canyon is split between Leander ISD and Austin ISD. Homes in the Leander ISD section are zoned to River Place Elementary, while homes in the Austin ISD section are served by Highland Park Elementary.
Use Leander ISD’s School Zone Finder, which is linked in the attendance zone section of this page. MLS school tags for this zone are quite accurate, but a few nearby listings, such as homes in McCormick Ranch on Lake Austin, are zoned to River Ridge instead.
Leander ISD made no changes to River Place’s zone for 2026-27. The school was not on any of the district’s consolidation lists, and with about 587 students it is above the enrollment thresholds the district set in December 2025.
Programs, Feeder Schools and Home Prices
The entire River Place zone feeds Four Points Middle School and then Vandegrift High School. Both campuses are on McNeil Drive near the Four Points intersection.
No. River Place is not a Pre-K site. Leander ISD assigns River Place families to Grandview Hills Elementary for Pre-K, and bilingual Pre-K is offered at other district campuses.
Identified gifted students take part in QUEST, Leander ISD’s weekly elementary GT enrichment. About 17 percent of students were in GT in 2024-25. River Place is not a dual language campus; English learners are served through ESL.
Recent offerings include the Titan Trebles choir for 4th and 5th graders, Destination Imagination, a FIRST LEGO League team, a Drama and Improv Club, a Jewelry Club and a PTA Spanish program. YMCA after-school care runs on campus until 6:30 p.m.
Over the trailing twelve months, 85 single-family homes zoned to River Place sold at a median of $1,080,000, or about $328 per square foot. Price per square foot has been nearly flat since 2022-23, while the median price has moved with the mix of homes sold.
It is fairly balanced. There are 28 active listings and roughly 4 months of inventory. Active listings have been on the market a median of 83 days, and over the past year homes sold for a median of 96.7 percent of their final list price.
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