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Alumni: what's one memory from MESITA EL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
916
Elementary
DISTRICT 487 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EL PASO ISD·NCES 481830001703
Mesita Elementary School
3307 N STANTON, EL PASO, TX 79902 · (915) 496-8180 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL916 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 79% of Texas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
529 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 137 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 112 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 128 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 150 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (137).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
62.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +29.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
51.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +29.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 29 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 33.0% | 29.0% | 18.0% | 20.0% |
| Mathematics | 23.0% | 28.0% | 26.0% | 23.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 62.0% | 51.0% |
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 53.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 42.0% |
| 2021-22 | 48.0% | 27.0% |
| 2020-21 | 33.0% | 22.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mesita Elementary School
Mesita Elementary School's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesita Elementary School this school | 916 | 57.8% | 54.3% |
| Horizon Heights Elementary School EL PASO | 947 | 56.6% | 61.3% |
| James P Butler Elementary School EL PASO | 884 | 60.9% | 47.6% |
| John Drugan School EL PASO | 990 | 58.8% | 62.4% |
| Cactus Trails EL PASO | 1,006 | 59.7% | 63.9% |
| Milam Elementary School MCALLEN | 811 | 53.4% | 62.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mesita Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #1,119 of 4,401 | #26 of 133 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,662 of 4,466 ▼ 740 | #54 of 133 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,249 of 4,466 ▼ 64 | #40 of 133 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.5pp | #1,378 of 3,998 | #46 of 132 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 916 | #190 of 4,938 | #16 of 141 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,818 of 4,622 | #58 of 134 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.9% | #3,635 of 4,628 | #29 of 134 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.8% | #3,229 of 4,789 | #126 of 139 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #1,281 of 2,838 | #55 of 93 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
916
-59 (-6%) vs 2020
+59% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 916 | 63.9 | 14.3:1 | 58% (529) |
| 2023-24 | 933 | 62.8 | 14.9:1 | 59% (546) |
| 2022-23 | 940 | 66 | 14.3:1 | 69% (651) |
| 2020-21 | 975 | 67 | 14.6:1 | 56% (550) |
| 2017-18 | 1,127 | 73.4 | 15.4:1 | 53% (597) |
| 2015-16 | 1,189 | 72 | 16.5:1 | 55% (652) |
| 2010-11 | 855 | 53 | 16.1:1 | 51% (437) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 41 | 13.1:1 | 63% (339) |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 37 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mesita Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (1,127 to 916); teachers down 13% (73.4 to 63.9).
About Mesita Elementary School
Mesita Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school with an address in EL PASO, Texas. It has an enrollment of 916 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
EL PASO ISD has a total of 76 schools and 48,118 students, Mesita Elementary School among them.
The share of students at Mesita Elementary School who are Hispanic is 87%. Other students are 8% White and 2% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 24, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 63.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, Mesita Elementary School has a ratio of 14.3:1. Compared with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 58%. It compares with 74% for public schools in El Paso County.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Mesita Elementary School outscored 79%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 49.0% at Mesita Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 54.3%.
In the surrounding county, El Paso County, the median household earns about $59,806 a year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 16% of people live in poverty. El Paso County has 273 public schools with about 165,404 students, including Mesita Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, El Paso High School is about 1.1 miles from Mesita Elementary School. The five-mile area around Mesita Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Mesita Elementary School comes in 1st of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Mesita Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Mesita Elementary School enrolled 975 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 916.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Mesita Elementary School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
870,779
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
273
165,404 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EL PASO ISD
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,835 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Chapin High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- El Paso High SchoolHigh · 1,636 students
- Hornedo Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,442 students
- Don Haskins PK-8Elementary · 1,405 students
Other schools in EL PASO
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 3,004 students
- Pebble Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,952 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,835 students
- Socorro High SchoolHigh · 2,579 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Montwood High SchoolHigh · 2,499 students
Nearby schools
- El Paso High School1.1 mi · 1,636
- About Face Program Elementary School1.4 mi · 3
- Lamar Elementary School1.4 mi · 265
- Wiggs Middle School1.4 mi · 943
- Triumph Public High Schools-El Paso West1.6 mi · 97
- Young Women's Steam Research & Preparatory Academy1.9 mi · 443
Frequently asked questions
About Mesita Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mesita Elementary School?
Mesita Elementary School enrolls approximately 916 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Mesita Elementary School serve?
Mesita Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Mesita Elementary School have?
Mesita Elementary School employs 64 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mesita Elementary School?
At Mesita Elementary School, the student body is approximately 8% White, 87% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Mesita Elementary School?
Mesita Elementary School is overseen by EL PASO ISD in El Paso County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.