BOWIE H S

BOWIE H S is a senior high of mid-sized scale in EL PASO, Texas, overseen by EL PASO ISD, works with 1,003 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 26% larger than typical.

Across the 76 schools in EL PASO ISD (48,118 students total), BOWIE H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, BOWIE H S lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BOWIE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for El Paso County shows 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%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which BOWIE H S is one.

DOUGLASS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOWIE H S at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 28%: 1,386 students in 2018 compared to 1,003 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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