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CARROLL T WELCH EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 29 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CARROLL T WELCH EL
CARROLL T WELCH EL is an average-sized elementary-level community in EL PASO, Texas, one of the schools within CLINT ISD. The school enrolls 676 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
CLINT ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 10,077 students. CARROLL T WELCH EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, CARROLL T WELCH EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). Other groups include 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CARROLL T WELCH EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at CARROLL T WELCH EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of El Paso County's rate of about 74%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CARROLL T WELCH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -1.2 points.
In the broader community, 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), CARROLL T WELCH EL is one campus in the mix.
DESERT HILLS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARROLL T WELCH EL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.4%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Five-year trend. CARROLL T WELCH EL's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 902 (now 676). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
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