HANKS MIDDLE

HANKS MIDDLE operates as a heavily attended 6-8 campus in EL PASO, Texas, one of the schools within YSLETA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,000 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 56% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within YSLETA ISD, which oversees 49 schools and 34,062 students, HANKS MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HANKS MIDDLE reports that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% White. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, HANKS MIDDLE logs 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, HANKS MIDDLE ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.6%; HANKS MIDDLE posts 50.2%, +15.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), HANKS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PEBBLE HILLS EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HANKS MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

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