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KELLER-HARVEL EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 22 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
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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