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What tradition at LIVE OAK RIDGE MIDDLE should never be changed?
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Enrollment
676
Middle
DISTRICT 700 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KILLEEN ISD·NCES 482566009115
Live Oak Ridge Middle School
2600 ROBINETT RD, KILLEEN, TX 76549 · (254) 336-2490 · Bell County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL676 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of Texas public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
462 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 231 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 222 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 223 | 33% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
45.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +12.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
31.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +4.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 18.0% | 27.0% | 25.0% | 30.0% |
| Mathematics | 9.0% | 22.0% | 29.0% | 40.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 45.0% | 31.0% |
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 32.0% |
| 2022-23 | 40.0% | 37.0% |
| 2021-22 | 44.0% | 30.0% |
| 2020-21 | 33.0% | 27.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Live Oak Ridge Middle School
Live Oak Ridge Middle School's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Oak Ridge Middle School this school | 676 | 68.3% | 32.5% |
| Berry Middle School MESQUITE | 599 | 74.3% | 39.4% |
| Liberty Hill Middle School KILLEEN | 674 | 61.0% | 38.4% |
| Richard Allie Middle School CROWLEY | 1,008 | 71.9% | 37.2% |
| Palo Alto Middle School KILLEEN | 781 | 76.7% | 24.5% |
| Life Middle Waxahachie WAXAHACHIE | 551 | 60.4% | 44.0% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Live Oak Ridge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bell County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #1,296 of 1,635 | #18 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #1,332 of 1,670 ▲ 41 | #18 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,277 of 1,670 ▲ 220 | #15 of 23 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #218 of 1,570 | #2 of 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 676 | #795 of 1,749 | #10 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #1,372 of 1,542 | #19 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.1% | #271 of 1,543 | #10 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.3% | #753 of 1,648 | #7 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.6% | #318 of 437 | #7 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
676
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 810
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 676 | 38.6 | 17.5:1 | 68% (462) |
| 2023-24 | 683 | 41.2 | 16.6:1 | 79% (539) |
| 2022-23 | 729 | 41.8 | 17.4:1 | 74% (536) |
| 2020-21 | 683 | 40 | 17.1:1 | 55% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 640 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 65% (414) |
| 2015-16 | 790 | 53 | 14.9:1 | 63% (500) |
| 2010-11 | 810 | 62 | 13.1:1 | 49% (393) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Live Oak Ridge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (640 to 676); teachers down 8% (42 to 38.6).
About Live Oak Ridge Middle School
Students in KILLEEN, Texas, attend Live Oak Ridge Middle School, a medium-sized middle-grades school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 676 students in grades 6 through 8.
KILLEEN ISD serves 42,883 students across 55 schools.
At Live Oak Ridge Middle School, the largest share of students is Black, at 45%. The remaining shares are 33% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% White, and 4% Pacific Islander. Bell County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 67% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 38.6 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 17.5:1. That is higher than the 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 68%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Bell County is 57%.
allk12 grades Live Oak Ridge Middle School a D. The grade compares the school only with Texas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Live Oak Ridge Middle School scores 32.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 44.5%.
Across Bell County, the median household income is $68,865, roughly 27% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Bell County is home to 130 public schools and about 71,041 public school students.
Robert M Shoemaker High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 32.5% is below the 38.6% average for nearby schools.
Federal data place Live Oak Ridge Middle School in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 683 to 676, a small change.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Bell County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
386,897
Census ACS
Median income
$68,865
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
71,041 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KILLEEN ISD
- Harker Heights High SchoolHigh · 2,192 students
- Robert M Shoemaker High SchoolHigh · 2,165 students
- Killeen High SchoolHigh · 2,083 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,031 students
- C E Ellison High SchoolHigh · 1,761 students
- Roy J Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,135 students
Other schools in KILLEEN
- Robert M Shoemaker High SchoolHigh · 2,165 students
- Killeen High SchoolHigh · 2,083 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,031 students
- C E Ellison High SchoolHigh · 1,761 students
- Roy J Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,135 students
- Killeen Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,091 students
Nearby schools
- Robert M Shoemaker High School0.8 mi · 2,165
- Maxdale Elementary School0.9 mi · 511
- Clear Creek Elementary School1.0 mi · 696
- Adventhealth School1.1 mi · 13
- Iduma Elementary School1.3 mi · 801
- Palo Alto Middle School1.3 mi · 781
Frequently asked questions
About Live Oak Ridge Middle SchoolHow large is Live Oak Ridge Middle School?
Live Oak Ridge Middle School enrolls approximately 676 students in grades 06-08.
Is Live Oak Ridge Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Live Oak Ridge Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Live Oak Ridge Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Live Oak Ridge Middle School is approximately 17.5:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Live Oak Ridge Middle School?
At Live Oak Ridge Middle School, the student body is approximately 7% White, 33% Hispanic, 45% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Live Oak Ridge Middle School in?
Live Oak Ridge Middle School is part of KILLEEN ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.