EAST POINT EL

EAST POINT EL is an average-sized elementary school in EL PASO, Texas, run under YSLETA ISD. The school works with 558 students in grades pre-K through 5.

YSLETA ISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 34,062 students; EAST POINT EL is among them.

Demographically, EAST POINT EL logs that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, EAST POINT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of +11.6 points.

Across the wider county, El Paso County reports that 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), EAST POINT EL is one campus in the mix.

EASTWOOD MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST POINT EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EAST POINT EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. EAST POINT EL's enrollment has fell 36% since 2018, when it stood at 877 (now 558). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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