PERSHING PARK EL

PERSHING PARK EL is one of the substantial elementary schools in KILLEEN, Texas, part of KILLEEN ISD, with 934 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 80% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

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

Looking at the student body, PERSHING PARK EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Black, 7% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, PERSHING PARK EL shows 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, PERSHING PARK EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.9%; this one delivers 30.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Bell County put the typical household earns roughly $68,865 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which PERSHING PARK EL is one.

VENABLE VILLAGE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PERSHING PARK EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PERSHING PARK EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

PERSHING PARK EL operates from an inner-city location.

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