CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE

As a mid-sized middle school in ROUND ROCK, Texas, CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE educates 718 students from grades 6 through 8, run under ROUND ROCK ISD.

Within ROUND ROCK ISD, which oversees 58 schools and 46,954 students, CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 40% White, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 58.6%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Around the school, Williamson County reports that median household income runs about $111,340, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Williamson County runs 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), of which CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE is one.

DEEP WOOD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. CHISHOLM TRAIL MIDDLE's enrollment has contracted 25% since 2018, when it stood at 952 (now 718). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 39% to 43%.

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