NEWMAN EL

Set in EL PASO, Texas, NEWMAN EL is a close-knit elementary campus, run under EL PASO ISD. It educates 246 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, NEWMAN EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest looks like 5% White, 3% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, NEWMAN EL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NEWMAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) reports that median household income runs about $59,806, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), NEWMAN EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ANDRESS H S, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEWMAN EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEWMAN EL has contracted 47%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 246 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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