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PARKLAND PRE-ENGINEERING MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 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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