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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at DEL VALLE H S this year?
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Enrollment
1,798
High
DISTRICT 983 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YSLETA ISD·NCES 484668006496
Del Valle High School
950 BORDEAUX DR, EL PASO, TX 79907 · (915) 434-3000 · El Paso County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,798 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Texas public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
108 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
1,500 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 495 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 430 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 420 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 453 | 25% |
Student demographics
3%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
57.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +27.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
47.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +4.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 6.0% | 51.0% | 19.0% | 24.0% |
| Mathematics | 12.0% | 35.0% | 37.0% | 16.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 57.0% | 47.0% |
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 44.0% |
| 2022-23 | 38.0% | 51.0% |
| 2021-22 | 32.0% | 55.0% |
| 2020-21 | 30.0% | 43.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Del Valle High School
Del Valle High School's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Del Valle High School this school | 1,798 | 83.4% | 57.0% |
| Bel Air High School EL PASO | 1,866 | 83.3% | 61.9% |
| Veterans Memorial High School MISSION | 1,737 | 81.8% | 44.9% |
| C C Winn High School EAGLE PASS | 1,878 | 81.7% | 47.9% |
| McCollum High School SAN ANTONIO | 1,502 | 84.6% | 38.7% |
| San Benito High School SAN BENITO | 2,057 | 81.1% | 28.0% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Del Valle High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #587 of 1,385 | #17 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #615 of 1,425 ▼ 58 | #16 of 45 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #749 of 1,425 ▲ 57 | #19 of 45 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.5pp | #902 of 1,184 | #32 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,798 | #380 of 2,107 | #11 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #1,022 of 1,344 | #30 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.7% | #1,298 of 1,346 | #39 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.4% | #337 of 1,522 | #17 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.6% | #236 of 557 | #17 of 28 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,798
-249 (-12%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 2,262
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,798 | 107.7 | 16.7:1 | 83% (1,500) |
| 2023-24 | 1,836 | 115.9 | 15.8:1 | 82% (1,504) |
| 2022-23 | 1,957 | 126.3 | 15.5:1 | 78% (1,521) |
| 2020-21 | 2,047 | 129 | 15.9:1 | 80% (1,646) |
| 2017-18 | 2,012 | 123.6 | 16.3:1 | 79% (1,595) |
| 2015-16 | 1,923 | 118 | 16.3:1 | 82% (1,568) |
| 2010-11 | 1,890 | 125 | 15.1:1 | 82% (1,549) |
| 2000-01 | 1,799 | 121 | 14.9:1 | 52% (944) |
| 1990-91 | 2,262 | 113 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Del Valle High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (2,012 to 1,798); teachers down 13% (123.6 to 107.7).
About Del Valle High School
Del Valle High School is a large high school in EL PASO, Texas. It reported 1,798 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. High schools in Texas average about 796 students, which makes this school 126% above average.
YSLETA ISD has 49 schools and 34,062 students, and Del Valle High School is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Del Valle High School, about 99 are Hispanic. Census figures show El Paso County is about 83% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 3, compared with 70 nationally.
Del Valle High School reported 107.7 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 16.7:1. The school's 16.7:1 compares with an average of 15.1:1 for high schools in Texas. Roughly 83% of students at Del Valle High School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in El Paso County averages 74%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Del Valle High School lands at B, ahead of 64% of Texas public high schools.
Del Valle High School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 57.0%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Texas are predicted to post 38.1%, so the school is 18.9 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
Looking at the county, El Paso County, the median household earns about $59,806 a year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Del Valle High School, El Paso County has 273 public schools.
Harmony School of Excellence - El Paso sits about 0.4 miles from Del Valle High School. Del Valle High School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 6 nearby schools that report test results, Del Valle High School ranks 4th on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2,047 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 1,798 by 2024-25.
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El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
870,779
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
273
165,404 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in YSLETA ISD
- Eastwood High SchoolHigh · 2,295 students
- Bel Air High SchoolHigh · 1,866 students
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 1,565 students
- J M Hanks High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Eastwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,280 students
- Ysleta High SchoolHigh · 1,168 students
Other schools in EL PASO
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 3,004 students
- Pebble Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,952 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,835 students
- Socorro High SchoolHigh · 2,579 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Montwood High SchoolHigh · 2,499 students
Other Del Valle High schools
One other US public school is named Del Valle High. Del Valle High School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Del Valle High SchoolDEL VALLE, TX · 3,641 students
Nearby schools
- Harmony School of Excellence - El Paso0.4 mi · 682
- Alicia R Chacon International0.4 mi · 859
- Harmony Science Academy (el Paso)0.5 mi · 1,034
- Lancaster Elementary School1.0 mi · 517
- Presa Elementary School1.3 mi · 289
- Del Valle Elementary School1.4 mi · 422
Frequently asked questions
About Del Valle High SchoolHow large is Del Valle High School?
Del Valle High School enrolls approximately 1,798 students in grades 09-12.
Is Del Valle High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Del Valle High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Del Valle High School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Del Valle High School.
How diverse is Del Valle High School?
Del Valle High School reports a student body of 1% White, 99% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian.
What district is Del Valle High School in?
Del Valle High School is part of YSLETA ISD.
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