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BELTON EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BELTON EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
BELTON EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in BELTON, Texas, run under BELTON ISD. The school teaches 494 students in grade pre-K.
Within BELTON ISD, which oversees 21 schools and 13,980 students, BELTON EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, BELTON EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL lists that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 36% White, 12% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bell County) records that median household earnings sit near $68,865, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which BELTON EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL is one.
BELTON NEW TECH H S AT WASKOW is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELTON EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL has grew 16%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.
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