LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL

LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL operates as a sizable elementary school in EL PASO, Texas, run under SOCORRO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 923 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 78% larger than the state mean of about 519.

SOCORRO ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 46,668 students; LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL is among them.

Demographically, LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 8% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with El Paso County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.1%; this one delivers 48.1%.

Across the wider 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SUN RIDGE MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LUJAN-CHAVEZ EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 1,126 students in 2018 compared to 923 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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