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What's one thing BARBARA WALKER EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
709
Elementary
DISTRICT 648 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CRANDALL ISD·NCES 481551012027
Barbara Walker Elementary School
4060 ABBEY RD, HEARTLAND, TX 75126 · (972) 427-6030 · Kaufman County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL709 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
471 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 43 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 106 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 34% smaller than its 6th grade class (106).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within CRANDALL ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
34.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +2.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
38.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +6.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 2 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 11.0% | 23.0% | 22.0% | 44.0% |
| Mathematics | 14.0% | 24.0% | 19.0% | 43.0% |
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 | 34.0% | 38.0% |
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 28.0% |
| 2022-23 | 35.0% | 46.0% |
| 2021-22 | 42.0% | 42.0% |
| 2020-21 | 32.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
30.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% 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 Barbara Walker Elementary School
Barbara Walker Elementary School's state test result (30.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Walker Elementary School this school | 709 | 66.4% | 30.6% |
| Dr Joseph A Fowler Elementary School KILLEEN | 739 | 64.4% | 43.8% |
| Haynes Elementary School KILLEEN | 811 | 67.7% | 43.4% |
| Venable Village Elementary School FORT CAVAZOS | 597 | 63.8% | 36.9% |
| Timber Ridge Elementary School KILLEEN | 717 | 60.4% | 38.5% |
| Cedar Valley Elementary School KILLEEN | 570 | 64.7% | 47.7% |
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 Barbara Walker Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Kaufman County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #3,602 of 4,401 | #20 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #3,077 of 4,466 ▲ 657 | #17 of 27 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #4,097 of 4,466 ▼ 159 | #23 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.5pp | #697 of 3,998 | #2 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 709 | #857 of 4,938 | #7 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #4,187 of 4,622 | #28 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #707 of 4,628 | #6 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.4% | #2,755 of 4,789 | #16 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.1% | #755 of 1,307 | #8 of 10 |
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
709
+162 (+30%) vs 2020
+36% since 2010-11, when it was 522
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 709 | 39.6 | 17.9:1 | 66% (471) |
| 2023-24 | 653 | 41.1 | 15.9:1 | 66% (433) |
| 2022-23 | 663 | 43.5 | 15.2:1 | 67% (443) |
| 2020-21 | 547 | 35 | 15.6:1 | 51% (281) |
| 2017-18 | 644 | 39.5 | 16.3:1 | 45% (290) |
| 2015-16 | 607 | 35 | 17.3:1 | 38% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 522 | 29 | 18.0:1 | 48% (252) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barbara Walker Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (644 to 709); teachers unchanged (39.5 to 39.6).
About Barbara Walker Elementary School
Barbara Walker Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in HEARTLAND, Texas, one of the schools in CRANDALL ISD. It is open to students in pre-K through 6 and enrolls 709 students. It has 37% more students than the average for elementary schools in Texas (about 519).
CRANDALL ISD oversees Barbara Walker Elementary School and 7 other schools, with 6,922 students in total.
The largest group at Barbara Walker Elementary School is Black students, at 41%. It is also 34% Hispanic, 19% White, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Kaufman County is roughly 19% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Barbara Walker Elementary School scores 68%.
The school has 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 17.9 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. The school reported 66% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Barbara Walker Elementary School is a bottom-10% school in Texas on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 30.6% against a predicted 45.3%.
In Kaufman County, the median household earns about $89,485 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Kaufman County has 65 public schools with about 41,319 students, including Barbara Walker Elementary School.
Hollis T Dietz Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Barbara Walker Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Barbara Walker Elementary School is 6th among 8 schools close by.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Fringe: the school is in a town close to an urbanized area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 709, up from 547 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 15.6 in 2020-21 to 17.9 in 2024-25.
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Kaufman County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
172,604
Census ACS
Median income
$89,485
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
41,319 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CRANDALL ISD
- Crandall High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Crandall Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,038 students
- Noble ReedElementary · 800 students
- Opal Smith Elementary SchoolElementary · 682 students
- W A Martin Elementary SchoolElementary · 614 students
- Hollis T Dietz Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
Other schools in HEARTLAND
- Hollis T Dietz Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
Nearby schools
- Hollis T Dietz Elementary School0.7 mi · 568
- Opal Smith Elementary School1.2 mi · 682
- Crandall Middle School1.5 mi · 1,038
- Forney Learning Academy2.0 mi · 104
- Forney High School2.3 mi · 2,582
- Johnson Elementary School2.5 mi · 655
Frequently asked questions
About Barbara Walker Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Barbara Walker Elementary School?
Barbara Walker Elementary School enrolls approximately 709 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Barbara Walker Elementary School serve?
Barbara Walker Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Barbara Walker Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Barbara Walker Elementary School is approximately 17.9:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Barbara Walker Elementary School?
Barbara Walker Elementary School reports a student body of 19% White, 34% Hispanic, 41% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Barbara Walker Elementary School?
Barbara Walker Elementary School is overseen by CRANDALL ISD in Kaufman County.
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