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Enrollment
1,295
Middle
DISTRICT 970 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROUND ROCK ISD·NCES 483808006034
Canyon Vista Middle School
8455 SPICEWOOD SPRINGS RD, AUSTIN, TX 78759 · (512) 464-8100 · Travis County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,295 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Texas public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
119 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 423 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 445 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 427 | 33% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
88.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +32.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
89.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +16.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 68.0% | 20.0% | 7.0% | 5.0% |
| Mathematics | 67.0% | 22.0% | 7.0% | 4.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 88.0% | 89.0% |
| 2024-25 | 88.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 87.0% | 85.0% |
| 2022-23 | 67.0% | 82.0% |
| 2021-22 | 68.0% | 78.0% |
| 2020-21 | 56.0% | 73.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
83.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Canyon Vista Middle School
Canyon Vista Middle School's state test result (83.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon Vista Middle School this school | 1,295 | 9.2% | 83.1% |
| Cedar Valley Middle School AUSTIN | 1,306 | 10.6% | 79.4% |
| Florence W Stiles Middle School LEANDER | 1,493 | 4.0% | 82.5% |
| Pioneer Heritage Middle School FRISCO | 1,037 | 6.3% | 83.6% |
| Wester Middle School FRISCO | 918 | 11.9% | 82.3% |
| Pearson Middle School FRISCO | 1,032 | 4.6% | 82.4% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Canyon Vista Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Travis County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.1% | #16 of 1,635 | #1 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #14 of 1,670 ▲ 10 | #1 of 48 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #37 of 1,670 ▼ 1 | #4 of 48 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +14.0pp | #567 of 1,570 | #17 of 47 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,295 | #76 of 1,749 | #2 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #1,164 of 1,542 | #34 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #293 of 1,543 | #7 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.2% | #1,627 of 1,648 | #40 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #823 of 942 | #34 of 36 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,295
-110 (-8%) vs 2020
+75% since 1990-91, when it was 740
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 15.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,295 | 79.8 | 16.2:1 | 9% (119) |
| 2023-24 | 1,337 | 85.2 | 15.7:1 | 9% (127) |
| 2022-23 | 1,370 | 85.3 | 16.1:1 | 9% (124) |
| 2020-21 | 1,405 | 89 | 15.8:1 | 9% (122) |
| 2017-18 | 1,347 | 86.5 | 15.6:1 | 10% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 1,398 | 87 | 16.1:1 | 11% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 1,221 | 78 | 15.7:1 | 11% (136) |
| 2000-01 | 1,064 | 70 | 15.2:1 | 3% (29) |
| 1990-91 | 740 | 48 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Canyon Vista Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (1,347 to 1,295); teachers down 8% (86.5 to 79.8).
About Canyon Vista Middle School
Canyon Vista Middle School, a large middle-grades school, is located in AUSTIN, Texas. A total of 1,295 students attend the school, which covers grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in Texas is about 643 students, so this school is 101% bigger than average.
ROUND ROCK ISD has 46,954 students in 58 schools, and Canyon Vista Middle School is one of those schools.
At Canyon Vista Middle School, the largest share of students is Asian, at 44%. The remaining shares are 34% White, 15% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Travis County as a whole is about 8% Asian, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 16.2 students per teacher and 79.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 1.9 above the 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 9%. The 54% average for public schools in Travis County is 45 points higher.
allk12 grades Canyon Vista Middle School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Texas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Canyon Vista Middle School, the prediction is 69.8% and the result is 83.1%.
Canyon Vista Middle School is located in Travis County, where the median household income is $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Canyon Vista Middle School is one of 333 public schools in the county.
The school nearest to Canyon Vista Middle School is Laurel Mountain Elementary School, at a distance of about 1.0 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Canyon Vista Middle School ranks 2nd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Canyon Vista Middle School's enrollment declined 8%, to 1,295.
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Travis County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,330,015
Census ACS
Median income
$99,611
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
333
191,706 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROUND ROCK ISD
- Round Rock High SchoolHigh · 3,824 students
- Westwood High SchoolHigh · 2,858 students
- Cedar Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,713 students
- McNeil High SchoolHigh · 2,660 students
- Stony Point High SchoolHigh · 2,508 students
- Cedar Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,306 students
Other schools in AUSTIN
- Lake Travis High SchoolHigh · 3,569 students
- Bowie High SchoolHigh · 2,876 students
- Westwood High SchoolHigh · 2,858 students
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 2,854 students
- McNeil High SchoolHigh · 2,660 students
- Vandegrift High SchoolHigh · 2,437 students
Nearby schools
- Laurel Mountain Elementary School1.0 mi · 822
- Kathy Caraway Elementary School1.1 mi · 462
- Spicewood Elementary School1.7 mi · 691
- Pond Springs Elementary School1.7 mi · 532
- Deerpark Middle School1.8 mi · 916
- Live Oak Elementary School1.9 mi · 391
Frequently asked questions
About Canyon Vista Middle SchoolHow large is Canyon Vista Middle School?
Canyon Vista Middle School enrolls approximately 1,295 students in grades 06-08.
Is Canyon Vista Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Canyon Vista Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Canyon Vista Middle School have?
Canyon Vista Middle School employs 80 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Canyon Vista Middle School?
At Canyon Vista Middle School, the student body is approximately 34% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 44% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Canyon Vista Middle School public or private?
Canyon Vista Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROUND ROCK ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.