JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE

JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of medium-sized scale in CANUTILLO, Texas, operated by CANUTILLO ISD, instructing 570 students in grades 6 through 8.

CANUTILLO ISD runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,747 students. JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE shows that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is CANUTILLO EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.7%.

JOSE J ALDERETE MIDDLE operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 713 students in 2018 compared to 570 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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