MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL

MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL operates as an expansive K-5 school in EL PASO, Texas, part of EL PASO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 831 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 60% bigger than typical.

EL PASO ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 48,118 students. MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 18% White, 9% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against El Paso County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.5%, the actual is 61.8%, a residual of +0.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household income runs about $59,806, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

Nearest neighbor: HORNEDO MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARGUERITE J LUNDY EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 15%: 725 students in 2018 compared to 831 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 25% to 18%.

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