MAXDALE EL

MAXDALE EL, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in KILLEEN, Texas, part of KILLEEN ISD, teaches 511 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within KILLEEN ISD, which oversees 55 schools and 42,883 students, MAXDALE EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, MAXDALE EL reports that the largest single group is Black at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 9% White, 4% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 74% of students at MAXDALE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bell County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MAXDALE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.8%; this one delivers 37.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bell County) shows that median household income runs about $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MAXDALE EL is one of 130 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students).

Nearest neighbor: PALO ALTO MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MAXDALE EL. On composite proficiency, MAXDALE EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAXDALE EL has shrank 30%, going from 731 students in 2018 to 511 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 18% to 9% over that span.

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