Killeen Schools

Killeen ISD provides opportunities for students to engage with fine arts through dance, theatre, music, and visual arts. Through fine arts education, students can have unique experiences that may help them explore different realities, ideas, and relationships.  Fine arts can also help students in academic achievements, communication, higher order thinking, and collaboration. Involvement in fine arts is also believed to improve attendance and graduation rates. Killeen ISD’s emphasis on various forms of art starts at the elementary level through sequential music instruction by music specialists. Middle and high school students are encouraged to participate in various award-winning band, dance, orchestra, choir and theatre programs. Students can choose to participate in any combination of art programs, athletics, and advanced academics. Middle school students in Killeen ISD are introduced to various mediums and techniques in introduction to Visual Arts. Middle school art can help students

 2020-21 has presented a set of unique challenges to almost every industry, including schools. Sanitization has been a word we have heard since the pandemic began, and a major part of it involves keeping the surroundings and everything we touch and use clean.  In schools, the credit for maintaining cleanliness and safe, hygienic conditions for teachers and students goes to the school custodians. They work round the clock to ensure that all the classrooms, restrooms, laboratories, libraries, cafeterias, etc. are squeaky clean and sanitized at all times.  At Killeen Independent School District, The Custodian Appreciation Day was held in the month of October, 2021 to appreciate the never ending commitment of custodians towards maintaining cleanliness and order as schools attempt to adapt to new safety measures. It is because of these silent heroes that schools have been able to operate once again during the pandemic. Custodians make an important contribution towards the success of every s