SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL

SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL operates as a low-enrollment primary school in EL PASO, Texas, operated by EL PASO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 397 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 76 schools in EL PASO ISD (48,118 students total), SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL lists that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably 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 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put 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), SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MAGOFFIN MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 33.1%.

SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL has contracted 26%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 397 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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