CHARLES MIDDLE

CHARLES MIDDLE is a cozy 6-8 campus in EL PASO, Texas, part of EL PASO ISD. The school instructs 372 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 42% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within EL PASO ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 48,118 students, CHARLES MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CHARLES MIDDLE shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. Compared to El Paso County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, CHARLES MIDDLE records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting CHARLES MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CHARLES MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 38.1%, a residual of +0.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), CHARLES MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DR JOSEPH TORRES EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHARLES MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, CHARLES MIDDLE comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 43%: 648 students in 2018 compared to 372 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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