CATHERINE BELL EL

Located at 601 VILLA PALOMA BLVD, in LITTLE ELM, Texas, CATHERINE BELL EL is a mid-sized elementary school that serves 560 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within DENTON ISD.

DENTON ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,329 students; CATHERINE BELL EL is among them.

On demographics, CATHERINE BELL EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 16% White, 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CATHERINE BELL EL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CATHERINE BELL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at CATHERINE BELL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CATHERINE BELL EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.8%; actual is 25.4%, a gap of -23.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Denton County put median household income runs about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), CATHERINE BELL EL is one campus in the mix.

RAY BRASWELL H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CATHERINE BELL EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 801 students in 2018 compared to 560 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 37% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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