H D HILLEY EL

H D HILLEY EL, a mid-tier primary school in EL PASO, Texas, overseen by SOCORRO ISD, serves 483 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 51 schools in SOCORRO ISD (46,668 students total), H D HILLEY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, H D HILLEY EL records that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, H D HILLEY EL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 86% of students at H D HILLEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, H D HILLEY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.3%; this one delivers 34.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), H D HILLEY EL is one campus in the mix.

SALVADOR SANCHEZ MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, H D HILLEY EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at H D HILLEY EL has shrank 22%, going from 622 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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