Tarvin Elementary School is in the Leander ISD and earned a 10/10 rating from Great School’s as of October 2026. The kindergarten through 5th grade campus opened in 2021 inside Palmera Ridge in northeast Leander, and its attendance zone stretches east across Ronald Reagan Boulevard to Edgewood, Bluffview, Sarita Valley, Reagan’s Overlook, Escalera Ranch, The Preserve and Parkside Peninsula near Georgetown. Below you’ll find the school’s current Texas Education Agency rating, its programs, the zone and its two feeder patterns, and four years of MLS sales data for homes zoned to the school.
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Tarvin Elementary School Snapshot
- Address: 1280 Logan Del Way, Leander, TX 78641
- Phone: (512) 570-8200
- School District: Leander ISD
- Grades Served: Kindergarten through 5th grade. Starting in 2026-27, Pre-K for the Tarvin zone is held at Leander ISD’s new Ada Mae Faubion School for Early Childhood
- Enrollment: About 866 students (2025-26)
- Student-Teacher Ratio: 14.2 to 1 (2024-25)
- Principal: Rachel Baker (new for 2026-27)
- School Day: 7:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.; doors open at 7:10 a.m.
- Opened: August 2021, as Leander ISD’s 28th elementary school
- Mascot: Trailblazers
- Feeder Schools: Wiley Middle and Glenn High, or Stiles Middle and Rouse High, depending on the address
- GreatSchools Rating: It is 10/10 as of October 2026.
Tarvin is named for Nancy Tarvin, who spent about 25 years with Leander ISD as a school psychologist, director of special education and executive director of elementary curriculum. The school board chose the name in 2019 after a community petition. The $40.8 million campus was funded by the district’s 2017 bond.
Tarvin is one of the larger elementary schools in Leander ISD, and its student body is notably diverse. In 2024-25 about 55% of students were Asian, about a third were emergent bilingual students learning English, and roughly 18% were identified as gifted and talented. Only about 5% were economically disadvantaged, one of the lowest shares in the district. Teachers averaged 9.4 years of experience, below the district average of 12.9, which is typical for a campus that opened recently. 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
Tarvin Elementary received a B (87) in the Texas Education Agency’s 2025-26 accountability ratings, released in August 2026. That is down from an A (90) in 2024-25. Student Achievement held steady at an A (91), and 62% of students scored at grade level or above on STAAR. School Progress slipped from 89 to 87. The bigger change came in Closing the Gaps, which tracks how each student group performs against state targets and fell from a B (88) to a C (78). Tarvin was not identified for any federal support or improvement plan. For comparison, Leander ISD as a whole also earned a B (87).
- Overall TEA Rating (2025-26): B (87)
- Student Achievement: A (91)
- School Progress: B (87)
- Closing the Gaps: C (78)
- Prior Overall Ratings: A (90) in 2024-25, B (87) in 2023-24, A (92) in 2022-23, and A (91) in 2021-22, the school’s first year
Tarvin’s score has moved between a high B and a low A every year since it opened, and Student Achievement has been an A each year. The Relative Performance part of School Progress compares a campus with schools serving a similar share of low-income students. Because so few Tarvin students are economically disadvantaged, that measure sets a high bar, and it scored an F (59) again in 2025-26. TEA uses the better of the two School Progress measures, so the B came from student growth on STAAR.
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 Tarvin Elementary (campus 246913128), and prior-year TEA accountability summaries. Texas Tribune STAAR data and the 2024-25 Texas Academic Performance Report for enrollment and staffing.
Programs at Tarvin Elementary
Here is what Tarvin and Leander ISD publish for the campus:
- Inquiry-Based Learning: The campus describes its focus as inquiry, with students working as curious learners, problem solvers, collaborators and communicators.
- English Learners: About a third of Tarvin students are learning English, and the campus serves them through its ESL program. Tarvin is not one of Leander ISD’s dual language campuses (those are Bagdad, Knowles, Reed and Whitestone). Families can request a transfer to one of them.
- Gifted and Talented: Identified students are served through QUEST, Leander ISD’s elementary GT program, which meets as a weekly pull-out class with the campus GT teacher.
- Special Education: About 12.5% of Tarvin students received special education services in 2024-25.
- Pre-K: Tarvin hosted Pre-K 4 through 2025-26. Starting in 2026-27, Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 for the Tarvin zone are held at the new Ada Mae Faubion School for Early Childhood, which also serves the Bagdad, Larkspur, North and Plain zones.
- Clubs: The campus site lists Student Council, News Crew (the live-streamed morning announcements), Yearbook Club, Mona Lisa Mornings art club, Math Pentathlon, Destination Imagination, Kindness Club, Flag Crew and Safety Patrol.
- Before and After School: The YMCA of Central Texas runs its after-school program on campus until 6:30 p.m.
- Family Involvement: The Tarvin PTA runs fundraisers and a PTA store, and the campus links to Watch D.O.G.S. (a dads-and-father-figures volunteer program) and HEROES mentoring.
Club offerings can change from year to year, so check the Tarvin Elementary website for current schedules.
Where is Tarvin Elementary School?
Tarvin Elementary is located at:
1280 Logan Del Way
Leander, TX 78641
Tarvin Elementary Attendance Zone Map
Tarvin’s attendance zone covers about 10 square miles of northeast Leander and the unincorporated area between Leander and Georgetown. On the west it takes in Palmera Ridge, including the Palmera Bluff sections, along with the acreage homes around County Road 270, RM 2243 and Hero Way. It then crosses Ronald Reagan Boulevard to Bluffview, Reagan’s Overlook, Sarita Valley, Edgewood and Wildspring, and continues east to Escalera Ranch, The Preserve and Parkside Peninsula, which have Georgetown mailing addresses. Neighboring Leander ISD zones are Akin, Camacho, Larkspur, North, Parkside, Plain and Pleasant Hill. To confirm the school for a specific address, use Leander ISD’s School Zone Finder.
The zone splits in two at the middle school level. Palmera Ridge and the rest of the western side feed Wiley Middle School and Glenn High School. Everything along and east of Ronald Reagan Boulevard feeds Stiles Middle School and Rouse High School. Also keep in mind that Parkside on the River, next door to Parkside Peninsula, is zoned to Parkside Elementary even though some of its listings are tagged Tarvin in MLS. Leander ISD did not change Tarvin’s boundaries for 2026-27, and Tarvin is not on the district’s December 2025 low-enrollment lists.
Homes Zoned to Tarvin Elementary: Market Stats
The figures below cover single-family homes sold through Unlock MLS that are zoned to Tarvin Elementary. We pulled every Leander ISD sale tagged to Tarvin, along with every sale tagged to Stiles, Wiley or Danielson Middle, and matched each address against Williamson County’s address points inside Leander ISD’s official Tarvin attendance zone. Listings outside the zone were removed. Most of these sales are in Palmera Ridge, Edgewood, Parkside Peninsula and Bluffview, with smaller numbers in Reagan’s Overlook, Sarita Valley, The Preserve, Escalera Ranch and Wildspring.
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 | 119 | $722,260 | $246.65 | 98.4% | 21 days |
| Sept 2023 – Aug 2024 | 191 | $672,236 | $234.97 | 97.4% | 37 days |
| Sept 2024 – Aug 2025 | 156 | $650,235 | $216.96 | 97.0% | 67 days |
| Trailing 12 Months (Sept 2025 – Aug 2026) | 170 | $692,500 | $214.76 | 95.8% | 117 days |
Data sourced from Unlock MLS. Statistics deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Single-family homes only. Each sale was matched against Leander ISD’s official attendance-zone boundaries. We left out 79 sales tagged Tarvin in MLS that sit outside the zone, most of them in the Parkside Elementary section of Parkside on the River. We added 66 in-zone sales that MLS tagged to other schools, most of them in Palmera Ridge. 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 Tarvin zone was $692,500 over the trailing twelve months. That is 4.1% below the $722,260 median in 2022-23 but 6.5% above the 2024-25 low of $650,235. Price per square foot gives a clearer picture of the trend, because the zone mixes $500,000 new builds in Parkside Peninsula and Edgewood with $1.3 million-plus homes in Reagan’s Overlook, The Preserve and Escalera Ranch. That measure fell steadily, from $246.65 in 2022-23 to $214.76 over the past year, a decline of 12.9%.
New construction drives this market. About 7 in 10 sales over the past year were homes built in 2025 or 2026, mostly in Palmera Bluff, Edgewood and Parkside Peninsula. Builders have been offering bigger discounts to move that inventory. The sale-to-list ratio slid from 98.4% to 95.8%, and the median days on market rose from 21 to 117. Resales have held up better: the 50 resales in the past year closed at a median of $672,500 after a median of 49 days on the market.
Current Inventory Snapshot
As of October 2, 2026
| Status | Count | Median List Price | Median Days on Market |
| Active | 75 | $732,245 | 88 days |
| Active Under Contract | 3 | $515,000 | 11 days |
| Pending | 8 | $653,995 | 78 days |
Data sourced from Unlock MLS. Statistics deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Same zone check as above. Days on market is the median among listings that report it. One active listing without a published price is counted but left out of the median.
75 homes are currently active in the Tarvin zone, with 3 under contract and 8 pending. Against about 14 sales a month over the past year, that works out to roughly 5.3 months of inventory, which is close to a balanced market and gives buyers room to negotiate.
Most of the supply is new construction. 48 of the 75 active listings were built in 2025 or later, concentrated in Edgewood, Palmera Bluff and Parkside Peninsula, and 15 are priced at $1 million or more. That pushes the median active list price to $732,245, above the trailing-twelve-month median sale price of $692,500. All 8 pending sales are new builds.
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Neighborhoods Zoned to Tarvin Elementary
The neighborhoods below have their own guides and are zoned to Tarvin Elementary. Palmera Ridge, including its Palmera Bluff sections, feeds Wiley Middle School and Glenn High School. Edgewood, Bluffview, Sarita Valley, Reagan’s Overlook, Escalera Ranch, The Preserve and Parkside Peninsula feed Stiles Middle School and Rouse High School. Smaller areas zoned to Tarvin without their own guides include Toll Brothers’ new Wildspring community along with the acreage tracts in South San Gabriel Ranches, Kittie Hill Acres and Highmeadow Estates.
Palmera Ridge
3-6 beds, 2-7 baths, 1,600-5,000 sqft, Mid $300,000s – $1.3MMs
Edgewood
3-5 beds, 3-6 baths, 2,182-4,700 sqft, High $400,000s – Low $800,000s
Bluffview
3-5 beds, 2-6 baths, 1,900-5,100 sqft, Low $400,000s – $1.1MMs
Sarita Valley
3-5 beds, 2-6 baths, 2,000-5,500 sqft, Mid $500,000s – High $800,000s
Reagan’s Overlook
3-5 beds, 3-7 baths, 2,800-5,200 sqft, $1MMs – $1.5MMs
Escalera Ranch
3-6 beds, 2-5 baths, 3,144-5,954 sqft, $1.7MMs – $2MMs
Preserve
3-6 beds, 3-6 baths, 3,100-4,600 sqft, $1.1MMs – $1.3MMs
Parkside Peninsula
New construction by Highland Homes and Perry Homes, Mid $500,000s – Mid $700,000s
Feeder Middle and High Schools
Tarvin Elementary splits between two feeder patterns, depending on the address:
- Palmera Ridge and the western side of the zone (including Palmera Bluff, South San Gabriel Ranches, Kittie Hill Acres and the County Road 270 area): Wiley Middle School, then Glenn High School
- Ronald Reagan Boulevard and everything east (Edgewood, Bluffview, Sarita Valley, Reagan’s Overlook, Wildspring, Escalera Ranch, The Preserve and Parkside Peninsula): Stiles Middle School, then Rouse High School
Feeder Middle Schools
- Wiley Middle School
1526 Raider Way, Leander, TX 78641
Great Schools Rating: 8/10 - Stiles Middle School
3250 Barley Rd, Leander, TX 78641
Great Schools Rating: 10/10
Feeder High Schools
- Glenn High School
1320 Collaborative Way, Leander, TX 78641
Great Schools Rating: 6/10 - Rouse High School
1222 Raider Way, Leander, TX 78641
Great Schools Rating: 8/10
Source: Leander ISD’s attendance-zone boundaries (School Zone Finder), checked against the district’s middle and high school zone maps. Some builder and MLS listings in Palmera Ridge still show Danielson Middle, which reflects zoning from before Wiley Middle opened. Confirm with the district for any specific address.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ratings and Zoning
Tarvin earned a B with a score of 87 in the 2025-26 TEA accountability ratings, released in August 2026. Student Achievement was an A (91), School Progress a B (87), and Closing the Gaps a C (78). The school earned an A (90) in 2024-25 and has scored between 87 and 92 every year since it opened in 2021.
Student Achievement stayed at an A (91), so overall test scores held up. The drop came mostly from Closing the Gaps, which measures how each student group performs against state targets and fell from 88 to 78. School Progress also slipped slightly, from 89 to 87. Tarvin was not identified for any federal improvement plan.
Palmera Ridge (including Palmera Bluff), Edgewood, Bluffview, Sarita Valley, Reagan’s Overlook, Wildspring, Escalera Ranch, The Preserve and Parkside Peninsula are zoned to Tarvin, along with acreage areas such as South San Gabriel Ranches, Kittie Hill Acres and Highmeadow Estates.
No. Parkside on the River is zoned to Parkside Elementary, although some of its MLS listings are tagged Tarvin. Its newer neighbor, Parkside Peninsula, is zoned to Tarvin. Check the specific address with Leander ISD’s School Zone Finder before you buy.
Use Leander ISD’s School Zone Finder, which is linked in the attendance zone section of this page. Don’t rely on the school name in an MLS listing. We found 79 sales tagged Tarvin that are outside the zone and 66 in-zone sales tagged to other schools.
Leander ISD made no changes to Tarvin’s zone for 2026-27. The only elementary rezoning that year was the Faubion Elementary consolidation, which does not affect this zone. Tarvin is also not on the district’s December 2025 low-enrollment lists.
Programs, Feeder Schools and Home Prices
It depends on the address. Palmera Ridge and the western side of the zone feed Wiley Middle School and Glenn High School. Ronald Reagan Boulevard and everything east, including Edgewood, Bluffview, Sarita Valley, Reagan’s Overlook, Escalera Ranch, The Preserve and Parkside Peninsula, feed Stiles Middle School and Rouse High School.
Not on campus as of 2026-27. Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 for the Tarvin zone moved to Leander ISD’s new Ada Mae Faubion School for Early Childhood, which also serves the Bagdad, Larkspur, North and Plain zones. Tarvin hosted Pre-K 4 through 2025-26.
No. Tarvin serves English learners, about a third of its students, through its ESL program. Leander ISD’s dual language elementary campuses are Bagdad, Knowles, Reed and Whitestone, and families can request a transfer to join one.
The school is named for Nancy Tarvin, who spent about 25 years with Leander ISD as a school psychologist, director of special education and executive director of elementary curriculum. The board chose the name in 2019 after a community petition.
Over the trailing twelve months, 170 single-family homes zoned to Tarvin sold at a median of $692,500, or about $215 per square foot. Prices range widely, from new builds around $500,000 in Parkside Peninsula and Edgewood to $1.3 million and up in Reagan’s Overlook, The Preserve and Escalera Ranch.
It is close to balanced. There are 75 active listings and about 5.3 months of inventory, most of it new construction. Homes sold over the past year closed at a median of 95.8 percent of their final list price after 117 days on market, so buyers have room to negotiate, especially with builders.
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