JAMES L BURRELL EL

Set in TEMPLE, Texas, JAMES L BURRELL EL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, part of BELTON ISD. It caters to 466 students across grades K through 5.

BELTON ISD comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 13,980 students; JAMES L BURRELL EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, JAMES L BURRELL EL shows that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible 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.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, JAMES L BURRELL EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 62.0%; actual is 43.5%, a gap of -18.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bell County) records that median household income runs about $68,865, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. JAMES L BURRELL EL is one of 130 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students).

PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS TEMPLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAMES L BURRELL EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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