EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school in EL PASO, Texas, part of YSLETA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 639 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within YSLETA ISD, which oversees 49 schools and 34,062 students, EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.5%; this one delivers 52.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $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%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: EASTWOOD MIDDLE, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. EDGEMERE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 723 (now 639). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 92% to 96% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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