SANTA RITA MIDDLE

As a big 6-8 campus in LIBERTY HILL, Texas, SANTA RITA MIDDLE enrolls 1,230 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by LIBERTY HILL ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 91% above typical.

Within LIBERTY HILL ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 9,836 students, SANTA RITA MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SANTA RITA MIDDLE logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 24% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, SANTA RITA MIDDLE reports 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Williamson County's rate of about 29%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SANTA RITA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.2%; this one delivers 58.0%.

In the area at large, Williamson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,340 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Williamson County's 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), SANTA RITA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TIERRA ROSA EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SANTA RITA MIDDLE comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

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