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O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 42 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 42 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY
O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in EL PASO, Texas, part of SOCORRO ISD, with 672 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% above the state mean of about 519.
Within SOCORRO ISD, which oversees 51 schools and 46,668 students, O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY is one campus in the system.
On demographics, O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Beyond that, the school logs 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.7%; this one delivers 46.9%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate 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 O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY is one.
WILLIAM D SLIDER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. O'SHEA KELEHER WHOLE CHILD ACADEMY's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 893 (now 672). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 97% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
El Paso County at a glance
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