BROOKHAVEN EL

BROOKHAVEN EL is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in KILLEEN, Texas, run under KILLEEN ISD, educateing 503 students in grades pre-K through 5.

KILLEEN ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 42,883 students; BROOKHAVEN EL is among them.

Demographically, BROOKHAVEN EL reports that the most-represented group is Black (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 35% Hispanic, 13% White, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at BROOKHAVEN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bell County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BROOKHAVEN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Bell County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,865 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. BROOKHAVEN EL is one of 130 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students).

The closest other public school is RANCIER MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROOKHAVEN EL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.1%.

BROOKHAVEN EL operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. BROOKHAVEN EL's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 503). White enrollment moved from 17% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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