RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE

RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE is one of the substantial middle-grades schools in CEDAR PARK, Texas, overseen by LEANDER ISD, with 1,120 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 74% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

LEANDER ISD runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 42,680 students. RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Demographically, RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE shows that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 33% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.3%; this one delivers 55.8%.

In the broader community, census data for Williamson County shows median household earnings sit near $111,340, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Williamson County runs 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), of which RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE is one.

PATRICIA KNOWLES EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUNNING BRUSHY MIDDLE has declined 10%, going from 1,246 students in 2018 to 1,120 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.