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What's the one class at PARKLAND H S every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,565
High
DISTRICT 983 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YSLETA ISD·NCES 484668005330
Parkland High School
5932 QUAIL AVE, EL PASO, TX 79924 · (915) 434-6000 · El Paso County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,565 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of Texas public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
101 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
1,198 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 408 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 436 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 364 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 357 | 23% |
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
53.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +29.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
46.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +32.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 5.0% | 48.0% | 20.0% | 27.0% |
| Mathematics | 14.0% | 32.0% | 35.0% | 19.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 53.0% | 46.0% |
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 25.0% | 28.0% |
| 2021-22 | 24.0% | 36.0% |
| 2020-21 | 24.0% | 14.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
56.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Parkland High School
Parkland High School's state test result (56.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkland High School this school | 1,565 | 76.5% | 56.0% |
| Burges High School EL PASO | 1,394 | 72.7% | 49.8% |
| Somerset High School SOMERSET | 1,175 | 75.7% | 43.4% |
| Uvalde High School UVALDE | 1,148 | 76.1% | 33.3% |
| Hereford High School HEREFORD | 1,182 | 73.7% | 38.3% |
| Southwest High School SAN ANTONIO | 2,363 | 74.4% | 44.3% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Parkland High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #618 of 1,385 | #18 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #650 of 1,425 ▼ 177 | #18 of 45 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #882 of 1,425 ▲ 91 | #24 of 45 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +23.0pp | #323 of 1,184 | #3 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,565 | #443 of 2,107 | #14 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #828 of 1,344 | #21 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.9% | #1,106 of 1,346 | #11 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.5% | #457 of 1,522 | #27 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.3% | #566 of 672 | #11 of 13 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,565
-167 (-10%) vs 2020
+63% since 1990-91, when it was 958
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,565 | 100.7 | 15.5:1 | 77% (1,198) |
| 2023-24 | 1,582 | 102.4 | 15.4:1 | 73% (1,152) |
| 2022-23 | 1,674 | 108.2 | 15.5:1 | 71% (1,189) |
| 2020-21 | 1,732 | 102 | 17.0:1 | 70% (1,220) |
| 2017-18 | 1,515 | 92.3 | 16.4:1 | 75% (1,139) |
| 2015-16 | 1,392 | 85 | 16.4:1 | 75% (1,043) |
| 2010-11 | 1,334 | 95 | 14.0:1 | 68% (912) |
| 2000-01 | 1,206 | 90 | 13.4:1 | 53% (643) |
| 1990-91 | 958 | 63 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkland High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (1,515 to 1,565); teachers up 9% (92.3 to 100.7).
About Parkland High School
Parkland High School is a high-enrollment high school in EL PASO, Texas, (ZIP code 79924). It teaches 1,565 students in grades 9 through 12. It has 97% more students than the average for high schools in Texas (about 796).
YSLETA ISD runs Parkland High School along with 48 other schools, enrolling 34,062 students in total.
Roughly 89% of students at Parkland High School are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 5% White and 4% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 20%.
Parkland High School reports a ratio of 15.5 students per teacher, from 100.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 15.1:1 average for high schools in Texas. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Parkland High School, 77% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 74% average for public schools in El Paso County.
Parkland High School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 69% of Texas public high schools.
Parkland High School is 15.0 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Texas.
Census data for El Paso County show median household income comes to about $59,806, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 16% of residents are in poverty. The county has 273 public schools and about 165,404 students.
Parkland Pre-Engineering Middle School sits about 0.4 miles from Parkland High School. Parkland High School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Parkland High School comes in 1st of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 10% decline took enrollment from 1,732 in 2020-21 to 1,565 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 17.0:1 in 2020-21 to 15.5:1 in 2024-25.
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El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
870,779
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
273
165,404 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in YSLETA ISD
- Eastwood High SchoolHigh · 2,295 students
- Bel Air High SchoolHigh · 1,866 students
- Del Valle High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- J M Hanks High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Eastwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,280 students
- Ysleta High SchoolHigh · 1,168 students
Other schools in EL PASO
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 3,004 students
- Pebble Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,952 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,835 students
- Socorro High SchoolHigh · 2,579 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Montwood High SchoolHigh · 2,499 students
Other Parkland High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Parkland High. Parkland High School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Parkland High SchoolAllentown, PA · 3,279 students
- Parkland HighWinston Salem, NC · 1,569 students
Nearby schools
- Parkland Pre-Engineering Middle School0.4 mi · 1,146
- Parkland Pre K Center0.8 mi · 308
- Dolphin Terrace Elementary School0.8 mi · 510
- Parkland Elementary School0.8 mi · 471
- Newman Elementary School0.8 mi · 246
- Andress High School1.0 mi · 1,341
Frequently asked questions
About Parkland High SchoolHow large is Parkland High School?
Parkland High School enrolls approximately 1,565 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Parkland High School serve?
Parkland High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Parkland High School have?
Parkland High School employs 101 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Parkland High School?
Student demographics at Parkland High School are roughly 5% White, 89% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Parkland High School in?
Parkland High School is part of YSLETA ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.