TORNILLO H S

As a tiny high school in TORNILLO, Texas, TORNILLO H S educates 241 students from grades 9 through 12, run under TORNILLO ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 796.

Within TORNILLO ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 726 students, TORNILLO H S is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TORNILLO H S records that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, TORNILLO H S has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, TORNILLO H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.8%; this one delivers 37.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (El Paso County) records that median household income runs about $59,806, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), TORNILLO H S is one campus in the mix.

TORNILLO J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TORNILLO H S comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 31%: 348 students in 2018 compared to 241 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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