High school (grades 9-12) · El Paso, TX

Career & Tech Ed Ctr

Federal NCES profile for Career & Tech Ed Ctr, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators.

2024-25 NCES dataHigh school (grades 9-12)NCES 481830008545
9 students enrolled

School address

Enrollment

9

Texas · 2024-25 NCES data

Teachers (FTE)

34.0

Federal CCD staff survey

Free-lunch eligible

33.3%

vs 61.9% Texas avg

-46% vs state

What stands out at Career & Tech Ed Ctr

Career & Tech Ed Ctr is a small high school in El Paso, Texas, enrolling 9 students.

Economic need runs somewhat below the state's typical profile, with 33.3% of students eligible for free meals.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 97% of Texas schools, with 9 enrolled.

Its district draws 22.4% of revenue from federal sources, an above-typical federal share that tends to track a higher-need student population.

El Paso Isd also operates Franklin H S (2,835 students) and Coronado H S (2,576 students) alongside Career & Tech Ed Ctr.

Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25

How Career & Tech Ed Ctr compares

Career & Tech Ed Ctr on the metrics families compare, against Texas and U.S. means.

Metric This school vs Texas Texas avg U.S. avg
Free-lunch eligible 33.3% ▼ 46% 61.9% 51.7%
Enrollment 9 top 97% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

9
Bigger than 1% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Equity indicators (what these measure)

Economic need
33.3%
free-lunch eligible - 46% below the Texas average of 61.9%
Below the 40% Title I threshold, among the lower-need profiles in the state; federal aid targets individual qualifying students rather than schoolwide programs.
Funding equity
$12,216
per pupil, district-wide - below Texas avg of $13,644
Well below the U.S. average per-pupil spend, a notably leaner funding position that may affect programs, facilities, and staffing.

Overview

  • Common Core of Data (June 2026): enrollment, staffing, and the student-teacher ratio above.
  • Civil Rights Data Collection: discipline counts and program access (AP, gifted, special education).
  • F-33 School District Finance Survey: the district-wide per-pupil spending figures below.

Three separate federal collections, each on its own reporting cadence - which is why this school's numbers line up on a consistent basis against every other school and state on this site, rather than mixing figures pulled from different survey years.

Funding & spending

District-wide per-pupil expenditure for El Paso Isd, which includes Career & Tech Ed Ctr.

$12,216
Per student
-10%
vs Texas
Avg $13,644
-26%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 33.5%
State 44.1%
Federal 22.4%

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.

How Career & Tech Ed Ctr Compares to District-Mates

School Enrollment Economic Profile Student-Teacher Ratio
Franklin H S Larger Higher economic need No ratio data
Coronado H S Larger Higher economic need No ratio data
Chapin H S Larger Higher economic need No ratio data
El Paso H S Larger Higher economic need No ratio data
Hornedo Middle Larger Similar economic need No ratio data

Comparisons are relative to Career & Tech Ed Ctr's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data.

Other Schools in This District

El Paso Isd · 5 sibling schools

View district profile

Similar high schools statewide

Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Texas, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Career & Tech Ed Ctr's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Career & Tech Ed Ctr

How many students attend Career & Tech Ed Ctr?

Career & Tech Ed Ctr has 9 students enrolled. It is a high school in El Paso, TX.

What percentage of students receive free lunch at Career & Tech Ed Ctr?

33.3% of students at Career & Tech Ed Ctr are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Texas average of 61.9%.

What other schools are in El Paso Isd?

Besides Career & Tech Ed Ctr, El Paso Isd also operates Franklin H S (2,835 students), Coronado H S (2,576 students), and Chapin H S (1,766 students). See the El Paso Isd district page for the complete list.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

All federal data sources used on this page

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