El Alternative Learning Center

Size

Of the 32 elementary schools in Killeen ISD, El Alternative Learning Center is the smallest, with 0% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 736; El Alternative Learning Center is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

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 1 with 3 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 1, against an average of 2 per grade. This year grade 5 has 200% more students than kindergarten (3 against 1). 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

The largest group is Black students: 61.5% here and 33.8% across Killeen ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 15.4%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

61.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 61.8% across Killeen 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

With 5.84 full-time-equivalent teachers for 13 students, El Alternative Learning Center has 2.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 13 students would have about 0.9 teachers, so El Alternative Learning Center has 4.9 more.

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

Location

El Alternative Learning Center is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. Dr. Joseph a Fowler Elementary School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 37 other elementary schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

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