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MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE
MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE operates as an average-sized intermediate school in MARBLE FALLS, Texas, one of the schools within MARBLE FALLS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 852 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 33% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE is one of 7 schools operated by MARBLE FALLS ISD, a district that teaches 4,001 students overall.
Demographically, MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 44% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Burnet County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of -3.7 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Burnet County put the typical household earns roughly $78,732 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Burnet County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,210 students), of which MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE is one.
The closest other public school is MARBLE FALLS EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Five-year trend. MARBLE FALLS MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 951 (now 852). The White share of enrollment edged down from 49% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.
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