ALICE W DOUSE EL

As a substantial primary school in KILLEEN, Texas, ALICE W DOUSE EL instructs 893 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by KILLEEN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ALICE W DOUSE EL sits 72% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 55 schools in KILLEEN ISD (42,883 students total), ALICE W DOUSE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, ALICE W DOUSE EL shows that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 31% Hispanic, 16% White, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ALICE W DOUSE EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ALICE W DOUSE EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.4%; actual is 34.9%, a gap of -14.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bell County indicate median household income runs about $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bell County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), ALICE W DOUSE EL is one campus in the mix.

CHARLES E PATTERSON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALICE W DOUSE EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.1%.

ALICE W DOUSE EL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALICE W DOUSE EL has ticked up 3%, going from 866 students in 2018 to 893 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 30% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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