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What's something ALICE W DOUSE EL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
893
Elementary
DISTRICT 694 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KILLEEN ISD·NCES 482566013235
Alice W Douse Elementary School
700 REBECCA LYNN LN, KILLEEN, TX 76542 · (254) 336-7480 · Bell County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL893 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of Texas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
500 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 75 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 116 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 139 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 149 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 160 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
51.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +12.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
41.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +0.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 23.0% | 28.0% | 26.0% | 23.0% |
| Mathematics | 15.0% | 26.0% | 22.0% | 37.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 51.0% | 41.0% |
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 56.0% | 38.0% |
| 2021-22 | 47.0% | 30.0% |
| 2020-21 | 39.0% | 41.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Alice W Douse Elementary School
Alice W Douse Elementary School's state test result (34.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice W Douse Elementary School this school | 893 | 56.0% | 34.3% |
| Saegert Elementary School KILLEEN | 940 | 59.7% | 36.0% |
| Lakeshore Elementary School HOUSTON | 862 | 50.6% | 37.5% |
| Timber Ridge Elementary School KILLEEN | 717 | 60.4% | 38.5% |
| Pat Carney Elementary School KILLEEN | 733 | 58.7% | 41.6% |
| Dr Joseph A Fowler Elementary School KILLEEN | 739 | 64.4% | 43.8% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Alice W Douse Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bell County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #3,239 of 4,401 | #44 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #2,757 of 4,466 ▲ 1,008 | #27 of 55 ▲ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #2,401 of 4,466 ▲ 530 | #31 of 55 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #1,089 of 3,998 | #15 of 50 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 893 | #220 of 4,938 | #7 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #3,815 of 4,622 | #48 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.2% | #234 of 4,628 | #8 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.0% | #3,315 of 4,789 | #41 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.1% | #1,114 of 1,307 | #10 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
893
-93 (-9%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 16.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 893 | 53 | 16.9:1 | 56% (500) |
| 2023-24 | 929 | 57.7 | 16.1:1 | 59% (545) |
| 2022-23 | 970 | 56.8 | 17.1:1 | 49% (478) |
| 2020-21 | 986 | 61 | 16.2:1 | 42% (415) |
| 2017-18 | 866 | 54.8 | 15.8:1 | 36% (313) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alice W Douse Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (866 to 893); teachers down 3% (54.8 to 53).
About Alice W Douse Elementary School
Alice W Douse Elementary School is a public elementary school run by KILLEEN ISD in KILLEEN, Texas. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 893 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
A total of 55 schools make up KILLEEN ISD, with 42,883 students enrolled.
No group is above 50% at Alice W Douse Elementary School; the largest is Black, at 36%. The rest of enrollment is 31% Hispanic, 16% White, and 13% multiracial. Among all residents of Bell County, the Black share is about 23%. The diversity index for Alice W Douse Elementary School is 73%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Alice W Douse Elementary School has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 16.9:1. The school's 16.9:1 compares with an average of 15.1:1 for elementary schools in Texas. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 56%. The average for public schools in Bell County is similar, at 57%.
On the allk12 Grade, Alice W Douse Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 10% of Texas public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Alice W Douse Elementary School would score about 49.8%. It scores 34.3%, a bottom-10% result among Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Bell County show median household income comes to about $68,865, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 130 public schools and about 71,041 students.
Charles E Patterson Middle School, about 1.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Alice W Douse Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Alice W Douse Elementary School is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Under the NCES locale system, Alice W Douse Elementary School is City: Mid-size.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 93 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
People who know Alice W Douse Elementary School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Bell County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
386,897
Census ACS
Median income
$68,865
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
71,041 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KILLEEN ISD
- Harker Heights High SchoolHigh · 2,192 students
- Robert M Shoemaker High SchoolHigh · 2,165 students
- Killeen High SchoolHigh · 2,083 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,031 students
- C E Ellison High SchoolHigh · 1,761 students
- Roy J Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,135 students
Other schools in KILLEEN
- Robert M Shoemaker High SchoolHigh · 2,165 students
- Killeen High SchoolHigh · 2,083 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,031 students
- C E Ellison High SchoolHigh · 1,761 students
- Roy J Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,135 students
- Killeen Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,091 students
Nearby schools
- Charles E Patterson Middle School1.4 mi · 746
- Pathways Academic Campus1.7 mi · 282
- Chaparral High School1.9 mi · 2,031
- Dr Jimmie Don Aycock Middle School2.1 mi · 557
- Saegert Elementary School2.5 mi · 940
- Trimmier Elementary School3.2 mi · 672
Frequently asked questions
About Alice W Douse Elementary SchoolHow large is Alice W Douse Elementary School?
Alice W Douse Elementary School enrolls approximately 893 students in grades PK-05.
Is Alice W Douse Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Alice W Douse Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Alice W Douse Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Alice W Douse Elementary School is approximately 16.9:1 (53 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Alice W Douse Elementary School?
Student demographics at Alice W Douse Elementary School are roughly 16% White, 31% Hispanic, 36% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Alice W Douse Elementary School in?
Alice W Douse Elementary School is part of KILLEEN ISD.
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