COOLEY EL

COOLEY EL, a compact elementary school in EL PASO, Texas, one of the schools within EL PASO ISD, instructs 393 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so COOLEY EL sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, COOLEY EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The remainder reads as 3% White, 2% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting COOLEY EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COOLEY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household income runs about $59,806, 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), COOLEY EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DR JOSEFINA VILLAMIL TINAJERO PK-8, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, COOLEY EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

COOLEY EL operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. COOLEY EL's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 393). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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