Bell's Hill Elementary School

Size

Bell's Hill Elementary School is the largest of Waco ISD's 15 elementary schools; its 786 students are 5.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 455; Bell's Hill Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 128 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 94, against an average of 112 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% more students than kindergarten (119 against 94). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 102 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 92.6% here and 62.5% across Waco ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.1% across Waco ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 50 full-time-equivalent teachers for 786 students, Bell's Hill Elementary School has 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 786 students would have about 53.1 teachers, so Bell's Hill Elementary School has 3.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Bell's Hill Elementary School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is South Waco Elementary School, 1.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 33 other elementary schools, 19 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.