PARK EL

Located at 3601 EDGAR PARK AVE, in EL PASO, Texas, PARK EL is a cozy primary school that caters to 368 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by EL PASO ISD. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARK EL lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at PARK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, PARK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,806, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), PARK EL is one campus in the mix.

CANYON HILLS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARK EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARK EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 35.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARK EL has declined 28%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025.

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