HUBBARD BRANCH EL
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 2 points since 2024, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About HUBBARD BRANCH EL
HUBBARD BRANCH EL is a reasonably sized elementary campus in BELTON, Texas, one of the schools within BELTON ISD. The school enrolls 514 students in grades K through 5.
BELTON ISD runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 13,980 students. HUBBARD BRANCH EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, HUBBARD BRANCH EL shows that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 38% White, 11% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, HUBBARD BRANCH EL shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bell County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HUBBARD BRANCH EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.4%; actual is 29.7%, a gap of -15.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bell County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bell County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), HUBBARD BRANCH EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is MILLER HEIGHTS EL, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HUBBARD BRANCH EL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.
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