TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 35 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S
TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of the close-knit 9-12 campuss in EL PASO, Texas, operated by EL PASO ISD, with 354 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 56% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within EL PASO ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 48,118 students, TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 10% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. Compared to El Paso County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against El Paso County (around 74%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 48.2%; actual is 83.1%, +34.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S is one.
The closest other public school is WHITAKER EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S. On composite proficiency, TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.4%.
TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S operates from an urban location.
Five-year trend. TRANSMOUNTAIN EARLY COLLEGE H S's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 454 (now 354). Hispanic enrollment moved from 77% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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