RUSK EL

Located at 3601 COPIA ST, in EL PASO, Texas, RUSK EL is an one-room-style elementary campus that serves 186 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under EL PASO ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so RUSK EL sits 64% smaller than that benchmark.

EL PASO ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 48,118 students. RUSK EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, RUSK EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at RUSK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, RUSK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $59,806, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which RUSK EL is one.

The closest other public school is CLENDENIN EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RUSK EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUSK EL has decreased 39%, going from 303 students in 2018 to 186 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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