HORIZON MIDDLE

HORIZON MIDDLE is an intermediate school of reasonably sized scale in EL PASO, Texas, run under CLINT ISD, serveing 677 students in grades 6 through 8.

HORIZON MIDDLE is one of 14 schools operated by CLINT ISD, a district that educates 10,077 students overall.

Looking at the student body, HORIZON MIDDLE reports that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HORIZON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.2%; this one delivers 30.8%.

In the broader community, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $59,806, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), HORIZON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DESERT HILLS EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HORIZON MIDDLE comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

HORIZON MIDDLE operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 697 students in 2018 compared to 677 in 2025.

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