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KELLER-HARVEL EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KELLER-HARVEL EL
KELLER-HARVEL EL, a medium-sized K-5 school in KELLER, Texas, one of the schools within KELLER ISD, educates 464 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.
KELLER ISD runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 32,042 students. KELLER-HARVEL EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, KELLER-HARVEL EL logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Tarrant County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 29% of students at KELLER-HARVEL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KELLER-HARVEL EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.4%; KELLER-HARVEL EL posts 75.6%, +14.2 points above that line.
In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. KELLER-HARVEL EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
The closest other public school is KELLER MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KELLER-HARVEL EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.8%.
KELLER-HARVEL EL operates from a commuter-belt location.
Looking at the recent track record. KELLER-HARVEL EL's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 464). The White share of enrollment declined from 69% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.
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