AOY EL

AOY EL is an elementary school of close-knit scale in EL PASO, Texas, one of the schools within EL PASO ISD, instructing 315 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

EL PASO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 48,118 students; AOY EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, AOY EL logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, AOY EL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting AOY EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, AOY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -0.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,806, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), AOY EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AOY EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.1%.

AOY EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. AOY EL's enrollment has decreased 34% since 2018, when it stood at 477 (now 315).

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