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MYRTLE COOPER EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 30 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 41 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MYRTLE COOPER EL
MYRTLE COOPER EL operates as an average-sized K-5 school in EL PASO, Texas, part of SOCORRO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 550 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
MYRTLE COOPER EL is one of 51 schools operated by SOCORRO ISD, a district that enrolls 46,668 students overall.
Looking at the student body, MYRTLE COOPER EL lists that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.
In terms of school funding signals, MYRTLE COOPER EL shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 69% 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), MYRTLE COOPER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of +5.8 points.
Across the wider county, El Paso County reports that median household income runs about $59,806, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 MYRTLE COOPER EL is one.
VISTA DEL SOL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MYRTLE COOPER EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.
MYRTLE COOPER EL operates from a high-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. MYRTLE COOPER EL's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 725 (now 550). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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El Paso County at a glance
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