LAKE BELTON MIDDLE

LAKE BELTON MIDDLE is one of the reasonably sized intermediate schools in TEMPLE, Texas, overseen by BELTON ISD, with 803 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

LAKE BELTON MIDDLE is one of 21 schools operated by BELTON ISD, a district that caters to 13,980 students overall.

Demographically, LAKE BELTON MIDDLE reports that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 25% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting LAKE BELTON MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bell County (around 57%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, LAKE BELTON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.5%; this one delivers 54.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bell County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $68,865 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which LAKE BELTON MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is JOE M PIRTLE EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LAKE BELTON MIDDLE comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE BELTON MIDDLE has contracted 4%, going from 840 students in 2018 to 803 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 33% to 25% over that span.

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