ZACH WHITE EL

ZACH WHITE EL is a low-enrollment K-5 school in EL PASO, Texas, run under EL PASO ISD. The school educates 395 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ZACH WHITE EL sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

ZACH WHITE EL is one of 76 schools operated by EL PASO ISD, a district that caters to 48,118 students overall.

Looking at the student body, ZACH WHITE EL lists that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 15% White, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, ZACH WHITE EL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at ZACH WHITE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ZACH WHITE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (El Paso County) records that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ZACH WHITE EL is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ZACH WHITE EL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ZACH WHITE EL has decreased 17%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 395 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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