RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN)

As a very small high school in KILLEEN, Texas, RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN) enrolls 136 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by RICHARD MILBURN ALTER HIGH SCHOOL (KILLEEN). Enrollment runs roughly 83% smaller than the state mean of about 796.

Within RICHARD MILBURN ALTER HIGH SCHOOL (KILLEEN), which oversees 9 schools and 1,607 students, RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN) is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN) logs that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 34% Hispanic, 9% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN) has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bell County's rate of about 57%.

Zooming out to the county, 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 roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN) is one.

KILLEEN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN).

The campus sits in a high-density setting. RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN) operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. RICHARD MILBURN ALTER H S (KILLEEN)'s enrollment has contracted 47% since 2018, when it stood at 255 (now 136). The White share of enrollment fell from 18% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.3:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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