Summary:
The El Paso Academy district in El Paso, TX, contains two high schools—El Paso Academy and El Paso Academy West—serving grades 9-12 in a high-poverty area where over 73% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
El Paso Academy West is the standout school in the district, showing dramatic improvement and outperforming its sister campus in nearly every key metric. Its state ranking jumped from the 23rd percentile to the 50th percentile in one year, placing it exactly at the Texas median. It boasts a much higher graduation rate (82.5% vs. 65.0%) and a lower dropout rate (5.5% vs. 8.7%) than El Paso Academy. The West campus also excels in U.S. History, with a 73.33% proficiency rate that exceeds the state average, and it outperforms the district in Algebra I (64.29% vs. 59.38%). Notably, El Paso Academy West spends $1,295 more per student and has a lower student-to-teacher ratio (28.2:1 vs. 34.3:1), suggesting higher investment is driving better results.
In contrast, El Paso Academy remains in the bottom quarter of Texas high schools (25th percentile) and struggles significantly in literacy and social studies. Its proficiency rates in English I Reading (40%), English II Reading (54.55%), and especially U.S. History (34.88%) are alarmingly low—the history score is less than half the state average. Neither school shows consistent strength across all subjects; while El Paso Academy West excels in math and history, it still lags in English. For parents, the key takeaway is that El Paso Academy West offers a clearly superior and improving educational environment, while El Paso Academy requires urgent intervention to address its low graduation rate and critical academic weaknesses.
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