JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE

JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE is a middle school of high-enrollment scale in ROUND ROCK, Texas, overseen by ROUND ROCK ISD, educateing 1,208 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 88% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

ROUND ROCK ISD comprises 58 schools with combined enrollment of 46,954 students; JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE shows that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 60% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE has 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Williamson County's rate of about 29%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 80.1%, a residual of +12.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Williamson County put the typical household earns roughly $111,340 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Williamson County's 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

CACTUS RANCH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 74.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMES GARLAND WALSH MIDDLE has fell 17%, going from 1,461 students in 2018 to 1,208 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 16% to 33%.

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