Best Public Schools in Killeen, TX

The city of Killeen, Texas, is home to 40 schools, serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, with the vast majority belonging to the Killeen Independent School District (Isd), which holds a 2-star rating and ranks in the 36th percentile statewide.

Among high schools, Chaparral High School stands out as the only comprehensive high school in the district to earn a 3-star rating, ranking in the 54th percentile and consistently outperforming state averages in subjects like Biology and English I. In contrast, Killeen High School is the lowest-ranked comprehensive high school in the district (22nd percentile) with the highest dropout rate among main high schools. At the elementary level, Maude Moore Wood Elementary and Cedar Valley Elementary are top performers, both earning 4-star ratings and ranking in the 73rd and 74th percentiles respectively, while Killeen Elementary is the lowest-ranked school in the district, sitting in the 3rd percentile. Middle schools like Palo Alto Middle and Rancier Middle face significant challenges, both ranking in the 8th percentile, though they show an interesting pattern where Algebra I End-of-Course scores are high due to only advanced students taking the test.

The district's overall graduation rate is 88.0%, but alternative schools like Pathways Academic Campus and Richard Milburn Alter H S (Killeen) have critically low rates of 69.7% and 24.8% respectively. The only charter school in the dataset, Priority Charter Schools - Killeen, performs relatively well with a 3-star rating and 59th percentile rank, outperforming the district average. Socioeconomic factors, as indicated by free/reduced lunch percentages, correlate with performance, with top schools having lower rates and struggling schools having higher rates, though this is not a deterministic factor.