El Paso Independent School District | |
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Address | |
1014 N. Stanton , TX , 79902United States | |
District information | |
Type | Public, independent |
Grades | PK, KG, 1–12 |
Established | 1883[1] |
School board | 7 trustees |
Governing agency | Texas Education Agency |
Schools | 93 (2016–17) [2] |
NCES District ID | 4818300 [2] |
District ID | TX-071902 |
Students and staff | |
Students | 59,424 (2016–17) [2] |
Teachers | 3,976.58 (FTE) (2016–17) [2] |
Student–teacher ratio | 14.94:1 (2016–17) [2] |
Other information | |
Website | www |
The El Paso Independent School District (or EPISD) is the largest school district serving El Paso, Texas (USA). Originally organized in 1883, it is currently the largest district in the Texas Education Agency's Educational Service Center (ESC) Region 19, as well as the largest district within the city of El Paso and El Paso County. The EPISD also provides public education to the children of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss. The district headquarters are located in El Paso. [3]
In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. [4]
The EPISD is managed by a school board (called the Board of Trustees) composed of seven publicly elected school board trustees and a single superintendent. Each trustee represents one of the seven districts in the EPISD. [5]
Its current headquarters are in Downtown El Paso. [21] It includes two buildings: an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2), [22] eight story building that was acquired and a newly built 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m2), three story building. [23]
The district began leasing a property on the grounds of El Paso International Airport in 1963 to house its administrative headquarters. By the 2010s the City of El Paso desired the use of the property for airport expansion, but chose to defer the original 2014 expiration of the lease to at least December 31, 2019 so EPISD had time to find a new headquarters location. [24] In 2021 the current EPISD headquarters opened. [21] The district spent $3.2 million to buy the land and the building on it for the downtown headquarters. [24]
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