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RIVERSIDE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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%.
About RIVERSIDE EL
Set in EL PASO, Texas, RIVERSIDE EL is a mid-tier elementary campus, part of YSLETA ISD. It enrolls 607 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 49 schools in YSLETA ISD (34,062 students total), RIVERSIDE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, RIVERSIDE EL lists that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, RIVERSIDE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of -2.0 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household income runs about $59,806, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), RIVERSIDE EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is RIVERSIDE MIDDLE, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIVERSIDE EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.7%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
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El Paso County at a glance
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