Charles Q Murphree PK-8

Size

Of the 50 elementary schools in El Paso ISD, Charles Q Murphree PK-8 is the 7th largest, with 1.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 350 students, so Charles Q Murphree PK-8 is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 8 with 153 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 56, against an average of 85 per grade. This year grade 8 has 110% more students than kindergarten (153 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 103 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 89.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across El Paso ISD (84.1%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.3% across El Paso ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Charles Q Murphree PK-8 has 58.71 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 846 students would have about 57.2 teachers, so Charles Q Murphree PK-8 has 1.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Mesa Hills Academy, 0.2 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 26 elementary schools within 5 miles and 61 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.