IRA CROSS JR EL

IRA CROSS JR EL operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in KILLEEN, Texas, part of KILLEEN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 642 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so IRA CROSS JR EL sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

KILLEEN ISD runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 42,883 students. IRA CROSS JR EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, IRA CROSS JR EL lists that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 32% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 9% White. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bell County's rate of about 57%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IRA CROSS JR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of +7.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bell County) shows that 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. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which IRA CROSS JR EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GATEWAY MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IRA CROSS JR EL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IRA CROSS JR EL has ticked down 10%, going from 714 students in 2018 to 642 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 52% to 44%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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