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DOBIE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DOBIE MIDDLE
DOBIE MIDDLE is one of the cozy 6-8 campuss in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by AUSTIN ISD, with 512 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 20% below typical.
Within AUSTIN ISD, which oversees 123 schools and 72,272 students, DOBIE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, DOBIE MIDDLE shows that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 9% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, DOBIE MIDDLE reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, DOBIE MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.8%; DOBIE MIDDLE posts 11.0%, -22.8 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, Travis County reports that median household income runs about $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which DOBIE MIDDLE is one.
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DOBIE MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DOBIE MIDDLE at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.6%.
DOBIE MIDDLE operates from a high-density location.
Over the past 7-year window. DOBIE MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 512). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 13% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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