ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S

ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S is one of the sprawling secondary schools in KILLEEN, Texas, one of the schools within KILLEEN ISD, with 2,165 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S sits 172% above that benchmark.

Across the 55 schools in KILLEEN ISD (42,883 students total), ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S lists that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 12% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S logs 122 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S higher than the state norm the norm. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.3%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bell County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,865 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S is one.

IDUMA 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 ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S. On composite proficiency, ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 2,199 students in 2018 compared to 2,165 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.