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AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE
Set in AUSTIN, Texas, AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE is a reasonably sized junior high, operated by AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 669 students across grades 5 through 8.
AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,713 students; AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE is among them.
In terms of who attends, AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Travis County's rate of about 54%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.8%.
Around the school, census data for Travis County shows median household income runs about $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).
SADLER MEANS YWLA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 809 students in 2018 compared to 669 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for AUSTIN ACHIEVE MIDDLE typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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