MARTIN MIDDLE

As an one-room-style middle school in AUSTIN, Texas, MARTIN MIDDLE educates 247 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by AUSTIN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so MARTIN MIDDLE sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, MARTIN MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 80% of enrollment; the rest looks like 15% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

Looking at school resources, MARTIN MIDDLE shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting MARTIN MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 95% 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 higher than Travis County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARTIN MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.3%; MARTIN MIDDLE posts 9.3%, -23.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Travis County reports that median household income runs about $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), MARTIN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

SANCHEZ EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARTIN MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARTIN MIDDLE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARTIN MIDDLE has shrank 45%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 247 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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