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JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE
JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE is a moderately sized middle school in GEORGETOWN, Texas, run under GEORGETOWN ISD. The school works with 728 students in grades 6 through 8.
GEORGETOWN ISD comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 13,881 students; JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE is among them.
On demographics, JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE records 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Williamson County's rate of about 29%.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.0%; actual is 39.5%, a gap of -15.5 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Williamson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,340 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 TIPPIT MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is WOLF RANCH EL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE.
JAMES TIPPIT MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 683 students in 2018 compared to 728 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 48% across the same window.
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