200 W 45th St
Austin, TX 78751

This is a wonderful neighborhood school with highly dedicated and experienced teachers. The principal is awesome!

My first son graduated from McCallum in 2022. While there are some challenges at McCallum, it is a good school that offers students a range of different opportunities. Our son enjoyed the business courses. He also took advantage of many different opportunities for advanced learning, including AP and community college classes. My second son is currently a 10th grader at McCallum. He has enjoyed French and engineering, in addition to core classes. My younger children look forward to the theater and dance programs at McCallum, which are among the best in the state.

This school might've been good before, but it has gone severely downhill. They are very short-staffed which means the teachers that they do hire are not good. I had one teacher where she didn't even teach. She just handed us notes and assignments. While she was grading for the final semester, she replaced my friends ungraded assignments with zeros because she didn't want to grade them. Most of the only interesting electives are gone because the teachers left. I remember I was in an elective that was supposed to have an overnight field trip and me and my friends were so hyped up for it but then it turned out that it was too late because they didn't order the charter buses soon enough or something. There are very minimal chances of being with your friend during lunch because we have 4 different lunch periods and even rarer to be in a class with your friend. However, I'm not saying that it's all bad. I had some really good and fun teachers in Kealing which really made it worthwhile but honestly I feel like most of the teachers just don't care.