El Paso Classical Academy

El Paso Classical Academy is one of the public schools in EL PASO, Texas. It is a small school serving multiple grade levels. The school offers pre-K through 12 and enrolls 271 students. That puts enrollment 44% below the 485-student average for combined schools in Texas.

El Paso Classical Academy is one school in TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, a system of 44 schools with 17,100 students.

A large majority of enrollment at El Paso Classical Academy is Hispanic, at 93%. It is also 4% White and 3% Black. El Paso County's residents are about 83% Hispanic, 10 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, El Paso Classical Academy scores 13%.

El Paso Classical Academy has 19.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1. The gap from the 11.7:1 average for combined schools in Texas is 2.0 students per teacher. At El Paso Classical Academy, 76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The figure for public schools in El Paso County is close, at 74%.

Based on student poverty, the model expects 41.2% at El Paso Classical Academy; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 43.6%.

The school is in El Paso County, where the median household earns about $59,806 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 16%. El Paso Classical Academy shares El Paso County with 272 other public schools.

Del Valle Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, El Paso Classical Academy places 6th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.

Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics. El Paso Classical Academy is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 271, from 298 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.5:1 to 13.7:1 over the same years.

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