DESERT WIND EL

DESERT WIND EL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in EL PASO, Texas, one of the schools within SOCORRO ISD, serves 521 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

DESERT WIND EL is one of 51 schools operated by SOCORRO ISD, a district that hosts 46,668 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DESERT WIND EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%); the rest reads as 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Paso County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DESERT WIND EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (El Paso County) shows that median household income runs about $59,806, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. DESERT WIND EL is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

Nearest neighbor: ROBERT R ROJAS EL, around 1.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DESERT WIND EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. DESERT WIND EL's enrollment has declined 42% since 2018, when it stood at 899 (now 521). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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