LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE

As an average-sized junior high in KILLEEN, Texas, LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE teaches 676 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by KILLEEN ISD.

Across the 55 schools in KILLEEN ISD (42,883 students total), LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% White, 4% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of -6.9 points.

In the area at large, Bell County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,865, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE is one.

ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 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), LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 640 (now 676). The White share of enrollment edged down from 15% to 7% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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