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SAN ELIZARIO H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SAN ELIZARIO H S
As a medium-sized four-year high school in SAN ELIZARIO, Texas, SAN ELIZARIO H S hosts 985 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within SAN ELIZARIO ISD. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
SAN ELIZARIO ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,927 students. SAN ELIZARIO H S is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, SAN ELIZARIO H S logs that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SAN ELIZARIO H S higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% 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 above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SAN ELIZARIO H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of +0.7 points.
Around the school, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), SAN ELIZARIO H S is one campus in the mix.
JOSEFA L SAMBRANO EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SAN ELIZARIO H S at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.5%.
SAN ELIZARIO H S operates from an outer-ring location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAN ELIZARIO H S has declined 5%, going from 1,035 students in 2018 to 985 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.
On the community side, the feed for SAN ELIZARIO H S typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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