Chisholm Trail Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Belton ISD, Chisholm Trail Elementary School is the largest, with 5.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.1 miles away and have a median of 532 students, so Chisholm Trail 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 5 with 147 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 96, against an average of 128 per grade. This year grade 5 has 53% more students than kindergarten (147 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 51% of enrollment, a higher share than across Belton ISD (36.2%). White students are next, at 33.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

57.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42% across Belton ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

Chisholm Trail Elementary School has 55.82 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 766 students would have about 51.8 teachers, so Chisholm Trail Elementary School has 4 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, midsize, which means it is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Southwest Elementary School, 1.7 miles away in the same district. There are 6 elementary schools within 5 miles and 21 within 10 miles.

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