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CELE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 51 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 CELE MIDDLE
CELE MIDDLE, a reasonably sized intermediate school in PFLUGERVILLE, Texas, operated by PFLUGERVILLE ISD, enrolls 762 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
CELE MIDDLE is one of 35 schools operated by PFLUGERVILLE ISD, a district that serves 25,477 students overall.
On demographics, CELE MIDDLE logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 32% White, 13% Black, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, CELE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 59.8%, a residual of -3.6 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CELE MIDDLE is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).
MOTT EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CELE MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.2%.
CELE MIDDLE operates from an outlying location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 1,044 students in 2018 compared to 762 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 46% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.
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