GUILLEN MIDDLE

GUILLEN MIDDLE, a close-knit middle school in EL PASO, Texas, run under EL PASO ISD, teaches 433 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 33% smaller than typical.

EL PASO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 48,118 students; GUILLEN MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, GUILLEN MIDDLE shows that 99% 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, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, GUILLEN MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.1%; GUILLEN MIDDLE posts 17.2%, -13.9 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for El Paso County put 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), GUILLEN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HART EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GUILLEN MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, GUILLEN MIDDLE comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. GUILLEN MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 44% since 2018, when it stood at 777 (now 433).

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