PASODALE EL

Set in EL PASO, Texas, PASODALE EL is a modestly sized elementary school, run under YSLETA ISD. It teaches 416 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within YSLETA ISD, which oversees 49 schools and 34,062 students, PASODALE EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PASODALE EL lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PASODALE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) reports that 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), PASODALE EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: THRIVE ACADEMY, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PASODALE EL at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 45.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. PASODALE EL's enrollment has edged down 40% since 2018, when it stood at 691 (now 416). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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