FARLEY MIDDLE

FARLEY MIDDLE is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle-grades schools in HUTTO, Texas, run under HUTTO ISD, with 674 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 15 schools in HUTTO ISD (10,688 students total), FARLEY MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, FARLEY MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 26% White, 15% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Williamson County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, FARLEY MIDDLE has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Williamson County (around 29%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FARLEY MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 55.4%; FARLEY MIDDLE posts 39.1%, -16.3 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Williamson County indicate median household income runs about $111,340, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. FARLEY MIDDLE is one of 208 public schools in Williamson County (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students).

Nearest neighbor: RAY EL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FARLEY MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FARLEY MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. FARLEY MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 892 (now 674). The White share of enrollment contracted from 37% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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