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How has MISSION VALLEY EL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
604
Elementary
DISTRICT 516 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YSLETA ISD·NCES 484668006810
Mission Valley Elementary School
8674 N LOOP DR, EL PASO, TX 79907 · (915) 434-3700 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL604 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of Texas public elementary schools
- CTest 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.
- FThree-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
15.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
522 students
DISTRICT 81% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 114 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (114).
Student demographics
3%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · 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
42.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +16.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
35.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +9.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 16.0% | 26.0% | 27.0% | 31.0% |
| Mathematics | 14.0% | 21.0% | 25.0% | 40.0% |
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 | 42.0% | 35.0% |
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 44.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.0% | 59.0% |
| 2021-22 | 41.0% | 52.0% |
| 2020-21 | 26.0% | 26.0% |
% 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
35.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Mission Valley Elementary School
Mission Valley Elementary School's state test result (35.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Valley Elementary School this school | 604 | 86.4% | 35.3% |
| Jose De Escandon Elementary School MISSION | 614 | 86.5% | 51.4% |
| Eisenhower Elementary School EDINBURG | 640 | 87.2% | 33.5% |
| Houston Gateway Academy HOUSTON | 613 | 85.6% | 59.6% |
| Dr Fermin Calderon Elementary School DEL RIO | 623 | 84.9% | 32.8% |
| Alfred Sorensen Elementary School SAN JUAN | 583 | 84.6% | 48.1% |
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 Mission Valley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.3% | #3,141 of 4,401 | #104 of 133 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #3,499 of 4,466 ▼ 286 | #118 of 133 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #3,512 of 4,466 ▼ 57 | #121 of 133 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -13.5pp | #205 of 3,998 | #3 of 132 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 604 | #1,599 of 4,938 | #52 of 141 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #3,105 of 4,622 | #92 of 134 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.9% | #4,421 of 4,628 | #123 of 134 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.4% | #1,439 of 4,789 | #51 of 139 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +29.9% | #257 of 1,307 | #8 of 27 |
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
604
-74 (-11%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 813
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 604 | 38.3 | 15.8:1 | 86% (522) |
| 2023-24 | 598 | 40 | 14.9:1 | 84% (501) |
| 2022-23 | 640 | 40.9 | 15.6:1 | 88% (560) |
| 2020-21 | 678 | 45 | 15.1:1 | 87% (593) |
| 2017-18 | 465 | 33.3 | 14.0:1 | 83% (388) |
| 2015-16 | 543 | 37 | 14.7:1 | 63% (340) |
| 2010-11 | 625 | 44 | 14.2:1 | 83% (517) |
| 2000-01 | 804 | 49 | 16.4:1 | 57% (461) |
| 1990-91 | 813 | 42 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mission Valley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 30% (465 to 604); teachers up 15% (33.3 to 38.3).
About Mission Valley Elementary School
Mission Valley Elementary School sits in EL PASO, Texas, and is classified as an elementary school. Its 604 students are spread across kindergarten through 5.
YSLETA ISD has a total of 49 schools and 34,062 students, Mission Valley Elementary School among them.
About 99% of the student body at Mission Valley Elementary School is Hispanic. In El Paso County overall, about 83% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 3% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at Mission Valley Elementary School total 38.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.8:1. That matches the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas fairly closely. The school counts 522 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 86%. It compares with 74% for public schools in El Paso County.
The allk12 Grade for Mission Valley Elementary School is C. Compared with Texas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 25% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mission Valley Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 35.3% actual against 36.8% predicted.
Census estimates describe El Paso County this way: the median household income is $59,806, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and about 16% of people live in poverty. Besides Mission Valley Elementary School, El Paso County has 272 other public schools.
Nearby, Del Valle Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of Mission Valley Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Mission Valley Elementary School is 9th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Mission Valley Elementary School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Mission Valley Elementary School dropped 11% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 678 to 604 students.
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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 YSLETA ISD
- Eastwood High SchoolHigh · 2,295 students
- Bel Air High SchoolHigh · 1,866 students
- Del Valle High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 1,565 students
- J M Hanks High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Eastwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,280 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
Other Mission Valley Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mission Valley Elementary. Mission Valley Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Mission Valley Elementary SchoolVICTORIA, TX · 239 students
- Mission Valley ElementaryTulare, CA · 671 students
- Mission Valley ElementaryFremont, CA · 375 students
- Mission Valley ElementaryEskridge, KS · 236 students
Nearby schools
- Del Valle Middle School0.0 mi · 969
- El Paso Classical Academy0.7 mi · 271
- Lancaster Elementary School1.1 mi · 517
- Ysleta Elementary School1.1 mi · 329
- Del Valle Elementary School1.2 mi · 422
- Ysleta High School1.3 mi · 1,168
Frequently asked questions
About Mission Valley Elementary SchoolHow large is Mission Valley Elementary School?
Mission Valley Elementary School enrolls approximately 604 students in grades KG-05.
Is Mission Valley Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mission Valley Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Mission Valley Elementary School?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Mission Valley Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Mission Valley Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mission Valley Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 99% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian.
What district is Mission Valley Elementary School in?
Mission Valley Elementary School is part of YSLETA ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.