NIXON EL

NIXON EL operates as a moderately sized primary school in EL PASO, Texas, run under EL PASO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 76 schools in EL PASO ISD (48,118 students total), NIXON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, NIXON EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% White, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NIXON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for El Paso County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. NIXON EL is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

The closest other public school is TOM LEA JR EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NIXON EL. On composite proficiency, NIXON EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. NIXON EL's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 510). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 62% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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