Kealing Middle School

Grades: 6-8
Students: 1196
Type: Public
GreatSchools Rating
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15:1
Student-Counselor Ratio: 426:1
Certified Teachers: 99%
Community Reviews
40 Reviews
Additional GreatSchools Ratings
10/10
Test Scores
3/10
Equity
NA
Academic Progress
NA
College Readiness
8/10
Student Growth

Community Reviews

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Kealing does well mostly because the students are super motivated and a lot of parents help their kids a lot. If you want good grades, you usually have to push yourself hard and have parents checking in a lot too, and I personally know some genuinely smart kids that use AI for all of their homework
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Posted by a student on 5/14/2026
The success on the magnet program is more a consequence of a very motivated student population with involved parents. There are some very strong teachers at Kealing, but there are also teachers who don't teach and rely on videos and cultivate an atmosphere of rigor through an excessive amount of hom
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Posted by a parent on 12/13/2025
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 re
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Posted by a student on 7/29/2024
This is not a safe environment for kids. There are no consequences for student’s aggressive behaviors in the classrooms towards students/ teachers. Admin does not take action in these situations, making it difficult for students, teachers and parents to feel safe and supported.
Posted by a parent on 12/8/2023
I am an 8th grader at Kealing right now, and it's kind of hard for me to write this review because when I first got here, it was the peak of Covid-19, so it was obviously horrible. Now, since the pandemic is pretty much completely over, it is much better than it was and it seems to be making upward
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Posted by a student on 10/24/2023

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Austin schools - Kealing Middle School is located at 1607 Pennsylvania Avenue, Austin TX 78702. Kealing Middle School is in the Austin Independent School District. Kealing Middle School is a Public school that serves grade levels 6-8.

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