BELLS H S

BELLS H S, a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in BELLS, Texas, run under BELLS ISD, teaches 318 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 60% below typical.

Within BELLS ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,007 students, BELLS H S is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BELLS H S records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, BELLS H S records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BELLS H S tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Grayson County (around 53%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BELLS H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.2%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of +12.2 points.

Across the wider county, Grayson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,182 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. BELLS H S is one of 68 public schools in Grayson County (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students).

PRITCHARD J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BELLS H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 22%: 261 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025.

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