Bee Cave Middle, Austin TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Bee Cave Middle

Bee Cave Middle is a sixth-through-eighth-grade campus within Lake Travis ISD, sitting in the western Austin area near the community of Bee Cave in Travis County. It feeds into one of the more academically active districts in the region, and the school's own STAAR results reflect that context clearly.

Reading and writing performance is the standout. Across all three grade levels, ELA proficiency rates are high, with sixth grade reaching especially strong territory and seventh and eighth not far behind. The pattern suggests that students arrive with solid literacy foundations and the school sustains them across the middle grades. Science and social studies results for eighth grade, the only grades tested in those subjects in Texas, are also strong, with science particularly so. Math tells a more varied story: eighth grade posts the highest proficiency rate in the building by a clear margin, and sixth grade is solid, but seventh grade math drops noticeably below the school's performance in every other area. That gap is worth asking the school about directly, whether it reflects a curricular transition, a specific cohort, or something else.

Looking at Texas's three-tier STAAR framework, the share of students reaching the top performance level, called Masters, sits at roughly half the student body across all subjects combined. That is a meaningful proportion, and in ELA it climbs higher still. For families whose children are working at advanced levels, the numbers suggest a substantial peer group at similar achievement.

Placed against districts in Travis County, Bee Cave Middle's proficiency index sits in the top quartile of the comparison set. That position reflects a school operating well above the county midpoint on academic outcomes.

The student body is moderately sized for a three-grade middle school. It is predominantly white, with Asian and Hispanic students each making up meaningful shares and smaller numbers of other groups. Free- and reduced-price lunch data was not available in the data provided, so economic context for the student population is not possible to characterize here. Specific information about English learner services or special education programming was also not in the data; families with children in either category should ask the school directly.

The housing market around Bee Cave is among the most expensive in the Austin metro. Home values in the zip code are far above the Texas state median and well above national benchmarks as well, and the gap between carrying a mortgage here and renting is substantial. Rents themselves consume a large share of local income. This is a high-cost entry point for any family considering a move for school access.

The broader Lake Travis ISD context shapes what lies ahead for current Bee Cave Middle students. Publicly reported information indicates the district passed bonds to build a second high school and fund athletic facility improvements, but slower enrollment growth has pushed that second high school's opening back by roughly a year and reduced its initial planned capacity. Boundary rezoning for the new schools was also delayed, meaning families planning around which high school their child will attend should expect those decisions to be resolved in early 2026 at the earliest. The district has also been working through operating budget deficits tied to flat state funding and declining property values, leading to staff position cuts. Programs and staffing at Bee Cave Middle could be affected by those pressures over the coming years, and it is worth monitoring how the district resolves its budget position heading into the next school year.

Multi-year trend data was only available for a single year, so there is no trajectory to report. Civil rights and outcomes data was not provided. Graduation rate is not applicable here since this school serves only middle grades.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 673%

School 73% · District 67% · ▲ 6 pts above district

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

Grade 743%

School 43% · District 38% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 879%

School 79% · District 75% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 689%

School 89% · District 82% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

Grade 779%

School 79% · District 72% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Grade 886%

School 86% · District 79% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 885%

School 85% · District 73% · ▲ 12 pts above district

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

Social studies

Grade 866%

School 66% · District 57% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 38 pts above county median

This schoolLAKE TRAVIS 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-income67%Higher-income90%23 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income57%Higher-income80%23 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income67%Higher-income87%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income27%Higher-income75%48 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income0%Higher-income46%46 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income63%Higher-income80%17 pp gap