PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
About PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN
PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN is a micro-enrollment elementary campus in KILLEEN, Texas, operated by PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS. The school caters to 76 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 85% below typical.
Across the 3 schools in PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (504 students total), PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% White. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.8%; this one delivers 45.6%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bell County indicate median household income runs about $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN is one.
RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN) 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 34.3%.
The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Inside the community feed, the feed for PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - KILLEEN typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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