MENDEZ MIDDLE

MENDEZ MIDDLE is one of the micro-enrollment middle schools in AUSTIN, Texas, overseen by AUSTIN ISD, with 199 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. That puts it 69% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

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

On demographics, MENDEZ MIDDLE logs that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Roughly 90% of students at MENDEZ MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, MENDEZ MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.6%; this one delivers 29.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MENDEZ MIDDLE is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

WIDEN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MENDEZ MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.5%.

MENDEZ MIDDLE operates from a city-core location. MENDEZ MIDDLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. MENDEZ MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked down 69% since 2018, when it stood at 646 (now 199).

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the MENDEZ MIDDLE community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.