YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of the modestly sized four-year high schools in EL PASO, Texas, part of YSLETA ISD, with 320 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 796.

YSLETA ISD runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 34,062 students. YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY shows that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 60% of students at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against El Paso County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.8%; this one delivers 59.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

Nearest neighbor: LOMA TERRACE EL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 48.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has declined 4%, going from 334 students in 2018 to 320 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 91% to 96%.

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