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Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 498 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELTON ISD·NCES 480986011412
Tarver Elementary School
7949 STONEHOLLOW DR, TEMPLE, TX 76502 · (254) 215-3800 · Bell County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of Texas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
218 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
52.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +34.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
35.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +17.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 34 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 26.0% | 26.0% | 25.0% | 23.0% |
| Mathematics | 13.0% | 22.0% | 27.0% | 38.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 52.0% | 35.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 53.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 41.0% |
| 2021-22 | 33.0% | 25.0% |
| 2020-21 | 18.0% | 18.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Tarver Elementary School
Tarver Elementary School's state test result (43.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarver Elementary School this school | 494 | 44.1% | 43.5% |
| Alvis C Story Elementary School ALLEN | 530 | 46.6% | 42.8% |
| Armand Bayou Elementary School HOUSTON | 518 | 45.4% | 45.4% |
| Bluebonnet Elementary School FORT WORTH | 546 | 46.7% | 47.0% |
| Massey Ranch Elementary School PEARLAND | 541 | 43.3% | 55.4% |
| Corinth Elementary School CORINTH | 537 | 41.0% | 37.8% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Tarver Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bell County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #2,138 of 4,401 | #22 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #3,422 of 4,466 ▼ 396 | #43 of 55 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #2,230 of 4,466 ▼ 247 | #27 of 55 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #1,117 of 3,998 | #16 of 50 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #2,597 of 4,938 | #39 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,040 of 4,622 | #10 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #370 of 4,628 | #15 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.1% | #3,803 of 4,789 | #48 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #1,529 of 2,838 | #19 of 33 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
494
-172 (-26%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 678
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 494 | 37 | 13.3:1 | 44% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 486 | 32.9 | 14.8:1 | 33% (162) |
| 2022-23 | 798 | 49.3 | 16.2:1 | 33% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 666 | 40 | 16.6:1 | 32% (210) |
| 2017-18 | 587 | 37 | 15.9:1 | 42% (249) |
| 2015-16 | 495 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 47% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 678 | 39 | 17.4:1 | 47% (321) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tarver Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (587 to 494); teachers unchanged (37 to 37).
About Tarver Elementary School
Families in TEMPLE, Texas, are served by Tarver Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 494 students in kindergarten through 5.
BELTON ISD runs Tarver Elementary School along with 20 other schools, enrolling 13,980 students in total.
The biggest share of students at Tarver Elementary School, 38%, is Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 33% White, 14% Black, 8% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Bell County's population at about 26%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Tarver Elementary School scores 72%.
There are 37 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 13.3:1. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average ratio is 15.1:1. Of all students at Tarver Elementary School, 44% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 57% average for public schools in Bell County is 13 points.
Tarver Elementary School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 29% of Texas public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Tarver Elementary School is 11.3 points below its prediction. Actual: 43.5%. Predicted: 54.8%.
Bell County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $68,865 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 27% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Bell County number 130, with about 71,041 students.
North Belton Middle School is about 0.6 miles from Tarver Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Tarver Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Tarver Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
Enrollment was 494 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 666. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.6:1 in 2020-21 to 13.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Bell County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
386,897
Census ACS
Median income
$68,865
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
71,041 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BELTON ISD
- Lake Belton High SchoolHigh · 2,300 students
- Belton High SchoolHigh · 1,763 students
- North Belton Middle SchoolMiddle · 979 students
- Lake Belton Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Chisholm Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 766 students
- South Belton Middle SchoolMiddle · 667 students
Other schools in TEMPLE
- Temple High SchoolHigh · 2,320 students
- Lake Belton High SchoolHigh · 2,300 students
- North Belton Middle SchoolMiddle · 979 students
- Lake Belton Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Thornton Elementary SchoolElementary · 763 students
- Travis Science AcademyMiddle · 686 students
Other Tarver Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Tarver Elementary. Tarver Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Tarver Elementary SchoolLAREDO, TX · 421 students
- Tarver Elementary SchoolTHORNTON, CO · 475 students
Nearby schools
- North Belton Middle School0.6 mi · 979
- Joe M Pirtle Elementary School1.0 mi · 575
- Lake Belton Middle School1.1 mi · 803
- James L Burrell Elementary School1.2 mi · 466
- Priority Charter Schools Temple1.2 mi · 218
- High Point Elementary School1.3 mi · 563
Frequently asked questions
About Tarver Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Tarver Elementary School?
Tarver Elementary School enrolls approximately 494 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Tarver Elementary School serve?
Tarver Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Tarver Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Tarver Elementary School is approximately 13.3:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Tarver Elementary School?
At Tarver Elementary School, the student body is approximately 33% White, 38% Hispanic, 14% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Tarver Elementary School public or private?
Tarver Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by BELTON ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.