West Ridge Middle, Austin TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on West Ridge Middle

West Ridge Middle serves a middle-grades population in the western Austin area as part of Eanes ISD. The school draws roughly evenly across sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, with a total enrollment of about nine hundred students.

The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Asian population, a meaningful Hispanic enrollment, and smaller numbers of other groups. The school did not report free-or-reduced-price lunch data, special education enrollment rates, or English learner counts, so those demographics are not available here. The zip code where the school sits has higher home values and rents than the state benchmark, placing it in an affluent area of the Austin metro.

Academic performance is strong. In English language arts, proficiency (meeting or exceeding state standards) ranges from the mid-eighties to ninety percent across the grade levels, with seventh grade performing especially well. In math, proficiency climbs across the grade band, starting in the mid-to-high seventies in sixth grade and reaching the mid-to-high eighties by eighth grade. The eighth grade cohort showed strong performance in science and solid results in social studies. Overall, the school sits in the top quartile among Travis County school entities when measured by proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades.

When Texas scores are broken down by performance level, the school shows strength at the "meets" level (on standard), with substantial shares of students at that tier across subjects. Fewer students reach the "masters" tier, with science mastery around the midpoint and social studies mastery around the lower-midpoint of the range. This profile suggests the school successfully helps students meet grade-level expectations but faces a steeper lift in pushing the highest-performing students to advanced performance levels.

The school serves grades six through eight only, so there is no graduation rate or high school pathway data available. The school does not report attendance or discipline data in publicly available form.

Austin itself is a fast-growing tech and education hub with a large and growing population, a walkable downtown core anchored by the State Capitol and the University of Texas, and a major influx of both residents and housing in recent years. The broader metro continues to expand, and the area around West Ridge is part of an increasingly built-out suburban western corridor. Housing in the zip code is substantially above state median values, reflecting the neighborhood's relative affluence.

West Ridge Middle appears well-positioned academically for families seeking solid proficiency across core subjects in a middle-grades setting within an affluent suburb of Austin.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 677%

School 77% · District 80% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

Grade 782%

School 82% · District 64% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 55 pts above state median · ▲ 61 pts above county median

Grade 886%

School 86% · District 89% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 44 pts above state median · ▲ 48 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 687%

School 87% · District 89% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

Grade 790%

School 90% · District 89% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

Grade 887%

School 87% · District 89% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Science

Grade 883%

School 83% · District 85% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 45 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 871%

School 71% · District 74% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 47 pts above state median · ▲ 43 pts above county median

This schoolEANES ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income59%Higher-income89%30 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income86%Higher-income90%4 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income50%Higher-income89%39 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income29%Higher-income82%53 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income100%Higher-income82%18 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income31%Higher-income88%57 pp gap