EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of the one-room-style middle schools in EL PASO, Texas, one of the schools within EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, with 181 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 72% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 775 students; EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is among them.

On demographics, EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household income runs about $59,806, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.

DOUGLASS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 192 students in 2018 compared to 181 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 96% to 100% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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