Summary:
In zip code 78723 (Austin, TX), there is one high school, Austin Achieve High School, serving grades 9 through 12 with 581 students as part of the Austin Achieve Public Schools district.
Austin Achieve High School faces significant academic challenges, consistently ranking in the bottom third of Texas high schools (26th percentile in 2025-2026). The most critical issue is a severe weakness in mathematics: only 7.14% of students were proficient in Algebra I in 2025-2026, compared to the state average of 54.03%, a gap of nearly 47 percentage points. This is not a one-year problem, as the previous year showed a similarly low 6.67% proficiency. While the school's graduation rate is a strong 92%, this contrasts sharply with low academic proficiency in core subjects like English I (41.2% proficient) and U.S. History (51.67% proficient), raising questions about curriculum rigor. The school's strongest subject is English II Reading at 52.91% proficiency, which is only about 7 points behind the state average.
A critical context is that 90.19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, classifying it as a high-poverty school. The school's performance is also volatile year-over-year, with U.S. History proficiency dropping from 62.83% to 51.67% between 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, while Biology improved from 44.53% to 57.42%. The district itself ranks in the 13th percentile statewide (rank 832 out of 951), placing it among the lowest-performing districts in Texas. With spending per student at $10,930—slightly below the state average—the school may lack the resources needed for intensive interventions to overcome the significant socioeconomic challenges its students face.
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