TRIMMIER EL

TRIMMIER EL operates as an average-sized elementary-level community in KILLEEN, Texas, run under KILLEEN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 672 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so TRIMMIER EL sits 29% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, TRIMMIER EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment; the rest reads as 17% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TRIMMIER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 73% of students at TRIMMIER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bell County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, TRIMMIER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.0%; this one delivers 36.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bell County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 TRIMMIER EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: C E ELLISON H S, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TRIMMIER EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TRIMMIER EL has ticked down 18%, going from 819 students in 2018 to 672 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 60% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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