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ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL
ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL is a reasonably sized elementary school in SAN ELIZARIO, Texas, one of the schools within SAN ELIZARIO ISD. The school serves 510 students in grades 3 through 6.
Within SAN ELIZARIO ISD, which oversees 6 schools and 2,927 students, ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL reports that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above El Paso County's rate of about 74%.
With demographic context factored in, ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.3%; this one delivers 35.2%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: L G ALARCON EL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.2%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Looking at the recent track record. ALFONSO BORREGO SR EL's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 510). Class-load math has rose: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.
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