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CLEAR CREEK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CLEAR CREEK EL
Set in FORT CAVAZOS, Texas, CLEAR CREEK EL is a medium-sized elementary school, part of KILLEEN ISD. It hosts 696 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 34% above typical.
KILLEEN ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 42,883 students; CLEAR CREEK EL is among them.
On demographics, CLEAR CREEK EL reports that 34% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 24% White, 11% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bell County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CLEAR CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.8%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of +8.9 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bell County) logs 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. CLEAR CREEK EL is one of 130 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students).
ADVENTHEALTH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CLEAR CREEK EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 721 students in 2018 compared to 696 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 24% across the same window.
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Bell County at a glance
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