HIGH POINT EL

HIGH POINT EL, a moderately sized elementary-level community in TEMPLE, Texas, overseen by BELTON ISD, instructs 563 students, covering grades K through 5.

HIGH POINT EL is one of 21 schools operated by BELTON ISD, a district that works with 13,980 students overall.

Looking at the student body, HIGH POINT EL logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder comes out to 26% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bell County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HIGH POINT EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.9%; actual is 38.6%, a gap of -17.3 points.

In the area at large, Bell County reports 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. HIGH POINT EL is one of 130 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students).

Nearest neighbor: LAKE BELTON H S, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HIGH POINT EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

HIGH POINT EL operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. HIGH POINT EL's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 716 (now 563). White enrollment moved from 66% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.