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CLIFTON PARK EL
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout CLIFTON PARK EL
Set in KILLEEN, Texas, CLIFTON PARK EL is a high-enrollment elementary-level community, run under KILLEEN ISD. It teaches 875 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 69% bigger than typical.
CLIFTON PARK EL is one of 55 schools operated by KILLEEN ISD, a district that caters to 42,883 students overall.
Looking at the student body, CLIFTON PARK EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 33% Hispanic, 15% White, 12% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, CLIFTON PARK EL reports 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Bell County's rate of about 57%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLIFTON PARK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.8%.
Around the school, census data for Bell County shows median household earnings sit near $68,865, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 CLIFTON PARK EL is one.
PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CLIFTON PARK EL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.
CLIFTON PARK EL operates from a downtown location.
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