MORENO EL

MORENO EL, an intimate K-5 school in EL PASO, Texas, overseen by EL PASO ISD, educates 304 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 519.

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

In terms of who attends, MORENO EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at MORENO EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against El Paso County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MORENO EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 30.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (El Paso County) logs that median household income runs about $59,806, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which MORENO EL is one.

MORENO MONTESSORI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MORENO EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MORENO EL has declined 38%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the MORENO EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.