Park Crest Middle, Pflugerville TX

Original Research by School Decision on Park Crest Middle

Park Crest Middle, a public middle school serving grades six through eight in Pflugerville, sits in a district navigating significant enrollment and budget pressures. The school enrolls just over about seven hundred students, with nearly half qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is racially and ethnically diverse, with roughly equal representation of Hispanic and white students, followed by a substantial Black student population. Specific data on English learners and students with individualized education plans was not available.

In state testing, Park Crest shows a mixed academic profile tied closely to grade level. Reading and language arts performance is the school's strength, with roughly three-fifths of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders meeting or exceeding proficiency across all three grades. Science results for eighth grade reach about half proficient. Mathematics presents a steeper challenge. Sixth graders reach proficiency at a modest rate, seventh graders perform considerably weaker, and eighth graders recover somewhat but still fall below reading performance. Social studies, tested only in eighth grade, shows roughly a quarter of students proficient. Overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places Park Crest above the midpoint among Travis County districts.

The school's performance pattern suggests students may struggle more with quantitative reasoning and content retention in the middle grades, with notable gains by eighth grade in some areas. Parents may want to ask the school directly about intervention structures for students who fall below proficiency in math and social studies, particularly how seventh-grade struggles are addressed before students move into the high school pathway.

Pflugerville ISD faces a major restructuring that directly affects Park Crest and families' school choices. In early 2026, the district's board voted to close four elementary schools effective the 2027-28 school year due to declining enrollment and budget shortfall. Additional middle school consolidations are under consideration, though no decisions have been made public yet. This uncertainty means families should confirm current and projected enrollment with the district. On the positive side, the district approved a bond in 2022 that funded facility renovations and career and technology education without raising the tax rate, and the overall school tax rate has been held at its lowest level in decades, a direct benefit to homeowners. Beginning in 2025-26, Pflugerville ISD rolled out a new required middle school elective called Pathways to Careers, which Park Crest students take, exploring fields such as artificial intelligence and clean energy and earning high school credit. This career focus is now part of the standard middle school experience.

Housing in the Pflugerville area sits in a mid-range for the Austin metro. The median home value has declined modestly year over year, and rents have similarly pulled back slightly. Monthly mortgage costs run under two thousand dollars on a typical home; rents run around sixteen hundred. Affordability is reasonable by national standards, though mortgage costs as a share of income come in above the national benchmark.

Park Crest is a straightforward public middle school in a district marked by real change. Its academic results are workable, not strong, particularly in math. The enrollment and consolidation context makes this a moment when families should ask specific questions of the district about long-term stability and class sizes before committing to a neighborhood assignment tied to this school.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 626%

School 26% · District 34% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 714%

School 14% · District 16% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 44% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 658%

School 58% · District 54% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 759%

School 59% · District 52% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 56% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Science

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 47% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 828%

School 28% · District 28%

▲ 4 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolPFLUGERVILLE 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-income44%Higher-income75%31 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income44%Higher-income73%29 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income70%24 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income16%Higher-income37%21 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income13%Higher-income16%3 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income26%Higher-income66%40 pp gap