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PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE
PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE, a big middle-grades school in EL PASO, Texas, part of YSLETA ISD, works with 1,146 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE sits 78% larger than that benchmark.
YSLETA ISD runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 34,062 students. PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
Demographically, PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE reports that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 4% White, 4% Black.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.5%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate 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%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
PARKLAND H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.
PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE operates from an urban location.
Over the past 7-year window. PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,282 (now 1,146). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 86% to 90% over that span.
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