WIGGS MIDDLE

Set in EL PASO, Texas, WIGGS MIDDLE is a medium-sized junior high, part of EL PASO ISD. It serves 943 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 47% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

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

Demographically, WIGGS MIDDLE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest is composed of 7% White.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting WIGGS MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WIGGS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $59,806, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), WIGGS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ABOUT FACE PROGRAM EL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WIGGS MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. WIGGS MIDDLE's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 957 (now 943).

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