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EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% 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 18 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL
EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL operates as a well-populated elementary school in EL PASO, Texas, part of YSLETA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 789 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 52% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
YSLETA ISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 34,062 students; EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL lists that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below El Paso County's rate of about 74%.
With demographic context factored in, EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 49.8%; this one delivers 67.3%, a residual of +17.6 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (El Paso County) shows that median household earnings sit near $59,806, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL is one.
EASTWOOD H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 61.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EASTWOOD KNOLLS INTERNATIONAL has ticked down 9%, going from 868 students in 2018 to 789 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.
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