Steiner Ranch Elementary School is in the Leander ISD and earned a 9/10 rating from Great School’s as of October 2026. The kindergarten through 5th grade campus sits on N. Quinlan Park Road inside the Steiner Ranch community in Northwest Austin’s 78732 zip code, between Lake Travis and Lake Austin. Even with an Austin address, it belongs to Leander ISD. Steiner Ranch is split among three elementary schools, and this one serves the northern and western parts of the neighborhood plus a pocket of lake-area homes north of RM 620 near Mansfield Dam. Below you’ll find the school’s current Texas Education Agency rating, its programs, the attendance zone and feeder schools, the district’s ongoing enrollment review, and three years of MLS sales data for homes zoned to the school.
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Enrollment and the Consolidation Review
Steiner Ranch Elementary’s enrollment has fallen from a peak of 573 students in 2019-20 to 378 in 2025-26, a drop of about 34%. In December 2025 the Leander ISD board adopted enrollment thresholds that trigger a formal review of small campuses: under 500 students, and a stricter line at under 400. Steiner Ranch falls below 400. The district studied closing the school for 2026-27 and splitting its students between Laura Welch Bush and River Ridge elementaries, a move estimated to save about $700,000 a year.
On December 17, 2025, after strong opposition from Steiner Ranch families, the board voted not to consolidate Steiner Ranch Elementary for 2026-27. The school is open and operating normally this year. The same vote directed the administration to develop consolidation scenarios for 2027-28 within the Vandegrift High School feeder pattern, if enrollment warrants, along with a districtwide look at grade-span models such as K-8. Those scenarios had not been published as of October 2026. Leander ISD is also running a 10-year planning process, Leander ISD 2037, with priorities going to the board in December 2026 and recommendations due by May 2027.
If you are buying in this zone with young children, the school’s 2027-28 status is the one open question worth watching. We’ll update this page when the district publishes its scenarios.
Steiner Ranch Elementary School Snapshot
- Address: 4001 N. Quinlan Park Rd., Austin, TX 78732
- Phone: (512) 570-5700
- School District: Leander ISD
- Grades Served: Kindergarten through 5th grade (Pre-K for Steiner Ranch families is housed at Laura Welch Bush and Grandview Hills elementaries)
- Enrollment: About 378 students (2025-26)
- Student-Teacher Ratio: 11.8 to 1 (2025-26)
- Principal: Tamara Shifrin (named principal in August 2026)
- School Day: Doors open at 7:10 a.m., classes run 7:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.
- Mascot: Stallions (school colors navy, burgundy and silver)
- Feeder Schools: Canyon Ridge Middle School, then Vandegrift High School
- GreatSchools Rating: It is 9/10 as of October 2026.
Steiner Ranch is a small Leander ISD elementary with small classes and experienced teachers, who average 12.5 years in the classroom. In 2025-26, about 20% of students were identified as gifted and talented, about 16% received special education services, about 10% were emerging bilingual students, and about 15% were economically disadvantaged. The school is named for the historic Steiner Ranch, the rodeo-stock ranch “Buck” Steiner began assembling in the 1940s, and it stands where the ranch foreman’s house and barn once were. The building received an 85,000-square-foot interior renovation that was completed in 2021. 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
Steiner Ranch Elementary received an A (90) in the Texas Education Agency’s 2025-26 accountability ratings, matching its A (90) from 2024-25. Student Achievement, which reflects how students scored on STAAR, rose to an A (93) from an A (91). School Progress, which measures year-over-year growth, slipped from an A (91) to a B (86), and Closing the Gaps eased from a B (86) to a B (82). The campus also earned two TEA distinction designations in 2025-26, for academic achievement in ELA/Reading and in Science, and it is not identified for any federal improvement support. For comparison, Leander ISD as a whole earned a B (87).
- Overall TEA Rating (2025-26): A (90)
- Student Achievement: A (93)
- School Progress: B (86)
- Closing the Gaps: B (82)
- Distinctions (2025-26): Academic Achievement in ELA/Reading and in Science
- Prior Overall Ratings: A (90) in 2024-25, B (88) in 2023-24, B (82) in 2022-23, A (90) in 2021-22, and A (91) 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. The 2022-23 dip to a B (82) was driven by School Progress and Closing the Gaps; the school has climbed back each year since.
Source: Texas Education Agency, 2026 Accountability Summary for Steiner Ranch Elementary (campus 246913107), and prior-year TEA accountability summaries. Enrollment, staffing and student-group figures from TEA’s 2025-26 Texas Academic Performance Reports.
Programs at Steiner Ranch Elementary
Here is what Steiner Ranch Elementary and Leander ISD publish for the campus:
- Gifted and Talented: Identified students in grades K-5 take part in QUEST, Leander ISD’s weekly elementary GT enrichment. About 20% of Steiner Ranch students were identified for GT in 2025-26.
- Destination Imagination: Student teams solve open-ended STEAM and performance challenges. Two Steiner Ranch teams reached the 2024 Destination Imagination Global Finals, placing 8th in the Scientific Challenge and 10th in Service Learning.
- Math and Robotics: Math Pentathlon, a strategy-game math competition, and a LEGO-based robotics club where students build and program autonomous robots.
- Student Leadership: Student Ambassadors for grades 3-5, a 5th grade Safety Patrol, and a Green Team that runs campus recycling.
- Hour of Power: H.O.P. sessions where students choose from a range of enrichment topics.
- English Learners: English learners are served through ESL. Steiner Ranch is not one of Leander ISD’s dual language campuses (those are Bagdad, Knowles, Reed and Whitestone). Volunteers also teach Spanish 30 minutes a week in K-5 classrooms through the district’s volunteer Spanish program.
- Pre-K: Steiner Ranch is not a Pre-K site. Leander ISD assigns Steiner Ranch families to Laura Welch Bush Elementary for Pre-K 4 and to Grandview Hills Elementary for Pre-K 3 (lottery seats) for qualifying children.
- Before and After School: YMCA after-school care runs on site, as it does at all Leander ISD elementaries.
- Family Involvement: An active PTA runs events like the fall APEX Fun Run, and the campus hosts Watch D.O.G.S. and HEROES mentoring volunteers.
Clubs and schedules change from year to year, so check the Steiner Ranch Elementary website for the current list.
Where is Steiner Ranch Elementary School?
Steiner Ranch Elementary is located at:
4001 N. Quinlan Park Rd.
Austin, TX 78732
Steiner Ranch Elementary Attendance Zone Map
Steiner Ranch Elementary’s attendance zone covers about 4.5 square miles of hill country along the north side of the Steiner Ranch community. South of RM 620, it takes in the Quinlan Park Road corridor and the neighborhoods off Steep Rock, Portofino, Zebecca Creek, Coryell, Country Lake, Wild Canyon and Flat Top Ranch Road, including The Retreat at Steiner Ranch, The View at Steiner Ranch, Lakeview at Steiner Ranch and the Bellagio Estates enclave on Lake Travis. North of RM 620, the zone also includes the lake-area pockets near Mansfield Dam: Travis Vista, Marshall Ford Vista, Hughes Park, Montview Acres, Hidden Valley and Comanche Trail Estates. To confirm the school for a specific address, use Leander ISD’s School Zone Finder.
Steiner Ranch itself is split among three elementary schools. The eastern Parkside and Grimes Ranch sections and much of Phase 1 Sections 5 through 9 go to Laura Welch Bush Elementary. The River Dance, University Club and southern lakeside sections go to River Ridge Elementary, as does The Palisades at Steiner Ranch. North of RM 620, the Comanche Trail and Comanche Canyon area west of the Hughes Park pocket is zoned to Grandview Hills Elementary. Leander ISD did not change Steiner Ranch Elementary’s boundaries for 2026-27.
Homes Zoned to Steiner Ranch Elementary: Market Stats
The figures below cover single-family homes sold through Unlock MLS that are zoned to Steiner Ranch Elementary. We pulled every Leander ISD sale and listing in the 78730, 78732 and 78734 zip codes, then 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 Steiner Ranch itself, with a smaller number on the lake side of RM 620 in Travis Vista, Marshall Ford Vista, Hughes Park and Montview Acres.
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 | 75 | $800,000 | $279.62 | 98.4% | 30 days |
| Sept 2023 – Aug 2024 | 46 | $777,500 | $273.13 | 98.1% | 30 days |
| Sept 2024 – Aug 2025 | 59 | $753,000 | $262.00 | 98.4% | 24 days |
| Trailing 12 Months (Sept 2025 – Aug 2026) | 71 | $699,000 | $246.00 | 97.4% | 35 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 quite accurate: we left out five sales tagged Steiner Ranch that sit in the Laura Welch Bush, River Ridge or River Place zones, added six in-zone sales tagged to other schools or untagged, and removed three duplicate records. 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 Steiner Ranch Elementary zone was $699,000 over the trailing twelve months, 12.6% below the $800,000 median of 2022-23 and 7.2% below the $753,000 of 2024-25. Price per square foot tells the same story: it fell from $279.62 in 2022-23 to $246.00 over the past year, a 12.0% decline. Part of the 2022-23 figure came from 12 newly built homes in The Retreat at Steiner Ranch, which sold at a median of about $892,000. Over the past year, 17 homes sold for under $600,000, up from 9 in 2022-23.
Sales volume has recovered, from a low of 46 homes in 2023-24 to 71 over the past twelve months. Homes are taking a little longer to sell, with a median of 35 days on market, up from 24 in 2024-25, and sellers received a median of 97.4% of their final list price. For buyers, price per square foot is lower than in any of the prior three years.
Current Inventory Snapshot
As of October 2, 2026
| Status | Count | Median List Price | Median Days on Market |
| Active | 27 | $850,000 | 80 days |
| Active Under Contract | 4 | $862,500 | 78 days |
| Pending | 1 | $749,750 | 38 days |
Data sourced from Unlock MLS. Statistics deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Same zone check as above; every current listing tagged Steiner Ranch was inside the zone, and no in-zone listing was tagged to another school. Days on market is the median among current listings.
32 homes are currently active, under contract, or pending in the Steiner Ranch Elementary zone. With 27 active listings against about 6 sales a month over the past year, the zone has roughly 4.6 months of inventory, which is close to a balanced market.
The median active list price of $850,000 sits well above the trailing-twelve-month median sale price of $699,000. That gap comes from the top of the list: 7 of the 27 active listings are priced at $1.8 million or more, including large estate properties on Flat Top Ranch Road and in Hughes Park and Comanche Trail Estates. Most of the zone’s typical Steiner Ranch homes are listed between $500,000 and $1 million. Active listings have been on the market a median of 80 days, so buyers have room to negotiate.
Homes for Sale Near Steiner Ranch Elementary School
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Neighborhoods Zoned to Steiner Ranch Elementary
The neighborhoods below have their own guides and include homes zoned to Steiner Ranch Elementary. Only the northern and western sections of Steiner Ranch are zoned here; the rest of the community goes to Laura Welch Bush or River Ridge, so check the specific address. Zoned areas without their own guides include The Retreat at Steiner Ranch, The View at Steiner Ranch, Lakeview at Steiner Ranch, Hughes Park, Montview Acres, Hidden Valley and Comanche Trail Estates.
Steiner Ranch
2-7 beds, 2-10 baths, 1,400-14,000 sqft, High $400,000s – $6.2MMs
Bellagio Estates
5 beds, 8-10 baths, 6,000-14,000 sqft, $3MMs – $8MMs
Travis Vista
2-5 beds, 1-5 baths, 1,550-4,000 sqft, High $400,000s – Low $500,000s
Marshall Ford Vista
2-5 beds, 2-5 baths, 1,800-5,500 sqft, $1MM – $2MM
Feeder Middle and High School
Every home zoned to Steiner Ranch Elementary feeds the same middle and high school:
Feeder Middle School
- Canyon Ridge Middle School
12601 Country Trails Ln., Austin, TX 78732
Great Schools Rating: 10/10
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 Steiner Ranch Elementary zone falls inside the Canyon Ridge Middle and Vandegrift High zones. Confirm with the district for any specific address.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ratings and Zoning
Steiner Ranch earned an A with a score of 90 in the 2025-26 TEA accountability ratings, the same as in 2024-25. Student Achievement was an A (93), School Progress a B (86) and Closing the Gaps a B (82). It also earned distinctions in ELA/Reading and Science.
Not this year. The Leander ISD board voted in December 2025 not to consolidate the school for 2026-27. The board asked the district to develop possible 2027-28 consolidation scenarios for the Vandegrift feeder pattern if enrollment warrants, and none had been published as of October 2026.
Enrollment has fallen from 573 students in 2019-20 to 378 in 2025-26, below the 400-student threshold Leander ISD adopted in December 2025 to trigger a formal review of small campuses.
No. Steiner Ranch is split among three elementary schools. The northern and western sections off Quinlan Park Road and Flat Top Ranch Road are zoned here, the Parkside and Grimes Ranch sections go to Laura Welch Bush, and the River Dance, University Club and Palisades sections go to River Ridge.
Travis Vista, Marshall Ford Vista, Hughes Park, Montview Acres, Hidden Valley and Comanche Trail Estates near Mansfield Dam are zoned to the school. Comanche Trail and Comanche Canyon to the west are zoned to Grandview Hills.
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 handful of nearby listings in the Laura Welch Bush and River Ridge zones have been tagged Steiner Ranch.
Programs, Feeder Schools and Home Prices
The entire zone feeds Canyon Ridge Middle School, which is also inside Steiner Ranch, and then Vandegrift High School on McNeil Drive.
No. Leander ISD assigns Steiner Ranch families to Laura Welch Bush Elementary for Pre-K 4 and to Grandview Hills Elementary for Pre-K 3, for qualifying children.
Identified gifted students take part in QUEST, Leander ISD’s weekly elementary GT enrichment, and about 20 percent of students were in GT in 2025-26. Steiner Ranch is not a dual language campus; English learners are served through ESL.
Offerings include Destination Imagination, which sent two teams to the 2024 Global Finals, Math Pentathlon, a LEGO robotics club, Hour of Power enrichment sessions, Student Ambassadors, Safety Patrol and a Green Team. YMCA after-school care runs on campus.
Over the trailing twelve months, 71 single-family homes zoned to Steiner Ranch Elementary sold at a median of $699,000, or about $246 per square foot. That is 12.6 percent below the 2022-23 median of $800,000.
It is close to balanced. There are 27 active listings and roughly 4.6 months of inventory. Active listings have been on the market a median of 80 days, and over the past year homes sold for a median of 97.4 percent of their final list price.
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