Howard Norman Elementary School

Caring, considerate and hardworking staff that tries to put a smile on every students face everyday. Amazing. 100 times better than any 9 point school in Austin. Diversity and Inclusion at its best. Pray that it continues to be so.

This school has been amazing we transferred from another school where my daughter really struggled. Now she is excelling and happy.

My child just started and I must say the experience has been awful. His teacher has an attitude and cannot handle pressure. Her frustration showed all the way through our conversation. There are not many adults outside in the morning to monitor these kids. I pray that one doesn’t dart out in to the middle of the street! Definitely miss his previous school. If I could move out of the hutto district I would. One of Worst districts hands down. 0 stars!

My wife and I have 2 children attending Ray and I am very pleased. We have been there for 3 years now. Very disciplined but also loving. The administration is very well organized and supports their teachers and students well. They were able to update technology and my kids LOVE Ray. I have never had to beg them to go to school there :)

When I bought my house here, RL Elementary's rating was 9. In the early of 2025 it became 6! Why?? The headmaster sounds nice but not helpful. The teacher we had looks nice but kid doesn't feel love. The third day of K, when I pick up my kid, he came out stamping on his feet. I asked why, turned out he didn't get his turn to pee before going out to the playground. And at the playground, he asked to pee, the teacher said something like: "u had ur chance"... Anyway, I still hope RL Elementary could be better, the headmaster has to make big changes.

We just didn't have a good experience. The learning expectations were extremely low, the teachers seemed burned out and no one really seemed to care. My child's classes apparently had loads of interruptions by a few troublemakers. She wasn't learning much, and she was becoming frustrated. We moved.

hello former student here. I went to this school 3rd through 5th grade it was for the most part the best school I've been to. I personally think that they could put better effort into creating a more emotionally safe environment when I went there I was excused because I wasn't as rich as most of the other kids in there, but with it being new very clean, GREAT teachers, I feel it's an amazing school.