RIVERA EL

RIVERA EL operates as a micro-enrollment primary school in EL PASO, Texas, overseen by EL PASO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 186 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

EL PASO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 48,118 students; RIVERA EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, RIVERA EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). The remainder reads as 16% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RIVERA EL has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at RIVERA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RIVERA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. RIVERA EL is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

The closest other public school is WESTERN HILLS EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RIVERA EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIVERA EL has edged down 47%, going from 353 students in 2018 to 186 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 92% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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