Summary:
In zip code 79830, there is one middle school, Alpine Middle, serving grades 5 through 8 with 244 students in the Alpine, Texas area, part of the Alpine Independent School District (Isd).
Alpine Middle presents a mixed performance profile. The school excels in 8th-grade mathematics and social studies, significantly outperforming state averages, but struggles in 5th, 6th, and 7th-grade mathematics and 5th-grade science, where proficiency rates are well below state benchmarks. The school's state ranking has declined over the past three years, dropping from the 66th percentile (3 stars) in 2023-2024 to a projected 44th percentile (2 stars) in 2025-2026. Despite a favorable student-teacher ratio of 10.5:1, which suggests smaller class sizes, the overall performance trend is downward. The 8th-grade cohort appears particularly strong, consistently outperforming the state in reading, math, and social studies.
Key metrics include a moderate socioeconomic indicator with 52.05% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, a low dropout rate of 1.5%, and spending of $12,394 per student. A notable finding is the dramatic disparity in math performance by grade level: 8th-grade math proficiency (51.85%) exceeds the state average (47.24%), while 7th-grade math proficiency is only 8.11% compared to the state average of 29.41%. This pattern, along with a similar gap in 5th-grade science, suggests challenges in building foundational skills in the early middle school years. The sharp drop in 7th-grade math scores may reflect the long-term academic impact of disrupted learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as this cohort would have been in 4th and 5th grade during that critical period.
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