LIVELY MIDDLE

LIVELY MIDDLE operates as a middle-of-the-pack junior high in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by AUSTIN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 910 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LIVELY MIDDLE sits 42% larger than that benchmark.

AUSTIN ISD comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 72,272 students; LIVELY MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, LIVELY MIDDLE shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 19% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 66% of students at LIVELY MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Travis County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, LIVELY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -3.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household income runs about $99,611, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which LIVELY MIDDLE is one.

TRAVIS HTS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LIVELY MIDDLE.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 998 students in 2018 compared to 910 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.