MILLER HEIGHTS EL

MILLER HEIGHTS EL is a low-enrollment primary school in BELTON, Texas, run under BELTON ISD. The school instructs 283 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 21 schools in BELTON ISD (13,980 students total), MILLER HEIGHTS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MILLER HEIGHTS EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 33% White, 11% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MILLER HEIGHTS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bell County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MILLER HEIGHTS EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.0%; MILLER HEIGHTS EL posts 23.8%, -15.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bell County put 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%. Across Bell County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), MILLER HEIGHTS EL is one campus in the mix.

NOLAN CREEK SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MILLER HEIGHTS EL at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 42.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 6-year window. MILLER HEIGHTS EL's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 283). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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