1Accountability rating raised one level due to school meeting Required Inprovement standard. Click on this TEA accountability ratings link for accountability rating information and general guidelines.
Performance information, as is shown below, for the 2009-2010 school year will be posted on these campus pages when it is published by the TEA in late-November.
2009 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) Results
English
Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
All
percentage of students passing
Bell High School
97
86
91
98
82
Grade 10
97
79
87
97
75
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
95
77
80
97
70
All Texas public schools
90
69
67
91
57
Grade 11
98
93
96
99
91
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
97
92
90
98
85
All Texas public schools
93
82
86
97
76
percentage of students commended performance
Bell High School
35
30
30
56
12
performance improvements needed to achieve Exemplary rating
•
Increase passing percentage of all students taking TAKS mathematics test from 86 percent to 90 percent.
•
Increase passing percentage of student group consisting of 135 students representing 11 percent of all students taking TAKS mathematics test from 75 percent to 90 percent.
•
Increase passing percentage of student group consisting of 227 students representing 18 percent of all students taking TAKS mathematics test from 74 percent to 90 percent.
•
Increase passing percentage of student group consisting of 329 students representing 28 percent of all students taking TAKS mathematics test from 74 percent to 90 percent.
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Increase passing percentage of student group consisting of 135 students representing 11 percent of all students taking TAKS science test from 87 percent to 90 percent.
•
Increase passing percentage of student group consisting of 227 students representing 18 percent of all students taking TAKS science test from 79 percent to 90 percent.
•
Increase passing percentage of student group consisting of 349 students representing 28 percent of all students taking TAKS science test from 82 percent to 90 percent.
2008 Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) Mean Scores
Verbal
Mathematics
Composite
Bell High School
na
na
1029
Texas
488
505
993
National
502
515
1017
2007 - 2008 Mobility Percentage:16.7
Mobility percentage is calculated by dividing the number of students enrolled at the school for less than 83 percent of the school year by the total number of students enrolled at the school any time during the school year.
2008 - 2009 Enrollment and Class Sizes
Students
Average
class size
Bell High School
2,023
Tenth grade
767
Eleventh grade
665
Twelfth grade
591
English/language arts
22.8
Foreign languages
23.8
Mathematics
19.4
Science
22.2
Social studies
23.1
Gifted and talented program
251
Special education program
171
For additional information about the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District, click on this Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD link. Click on this Colleyville link for Colleyville residential real estate information.
Sources: Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District and Texas Education Agency
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