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The 2020 best Austin middle schools lists on this page identifies the traditional open enrollment middle schools that scored highest on the 2019 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) evaluations administered statewide by the Texas Education Agency.

To make the evaluation of each schools’s academic performance more precise and meaningful, an academic performance index that indicates the relative combined STAAR score of each Texas middle and junior high school has been constructed. The way it works is that a school with an academic performance index level at 82.6 would have combined STAAR scores that are 17.4 percent lower than the scores of the state’s top performing middle school. Each school also has been assigned an academic performance score based on its rank in the overall academic performance index. Schools that rank among top 10 percent of schools included this study received an academic performance score of 10, schools in the next lower ninth decile received a score of 9, and so on. Accountability ratings awarded by the TEA in were not considered in this ranking analysis since in addition to STAAR scores these ratings take into account factors that generally have no meaningful linkage to the academic performance of individual students, such as changes in student performance at the school on the STAAR evaluations from one year to the next. Such factors may be meaningful to administrators and teachers, but not to most parents or students. Also not considered in this study are frequently, sometimes purposefully, misleading subjective factors such as opinions of self-selected contributors of anonymous parent and student reviews and "expert insights" regarding teacher quality.

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Open enrollment middle schools

Of the 108 Austin public middle and junior high schools included in this analysis, 79 are traditional open enrollment schools which are operated by local independent schools districts and where the only requirement for admittance is student residency in the school's attendance area. The Austin open enrollment middle schools that rank highest in academic performance and the cities/towns they serve are shown below.

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2020 top Austin open enrollment middle schools

rank	campus	district	students	academic performance index	accountability rating	STAAR scaled score	attended by students living in
1	Canyon Vista Middle School	Round Rock ISD	1,406	84.7	A	96	Austin
2	Walsh Middle School	Round Rock ISD	1,344	82.4	A	95	Cedar Park, Round Rock
3	Hill Country Middle School	Eanes ISD	1,053	80.9	A	95	Austin, West Lake Hills
4	West Ridge Middle School	Eanes ISD	929	77.8	A	94	Austin
5	Canyon Ridge Middle School	Leander ISD	1,265	76.6	A	94	Austin, Leander, Volente
6	Cedar Valley Middle School	Round Rock ISD	1,296	75.2	A	94	Austin, Cedar Park, Round Rock
7	Gorzycki Middle School	Austin ISD	1,280	74.9	A	94	Austin
8	Kealing Middle School	Austin ISD	1,230	73.4	B	93	Austin
9	Pearson Ranch Middle School	Round Rock ISD	882	71.5	A	93	Round Rock
10	Stiles Middle School	Leander ISD	1,404	70.3	A	93	Austin, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander, Round Rock

Source: Texas Education Agency

Similar Austin area elementary schools and high schools student performance ranked lists are available on these best Austin public elementary schools and best Austin public high schools pages. Rankings for school districts are shown on this best Austin school districts page.

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