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EPISD enrollment dips to about 48,000; district outlines timeline, programming and outreach for destination-district redesign
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El Paso Independent School District staff presented an annual enrollment analysis and a Destination District Redesign (DDR) update on Tuesday, showing enrollment at about 48,000 in 2025 and outlining priority registration, new programming and a timeline for attendance-boundary recommendations.
El Paso Independent School District staff presented an annual enrollment analysis and a Destination District Redesign (DDR) update on Tuesday that together outline how the district plans to respond to a decade-long enrollment decline and to stabilize and grow student counts through programming, outreach and boundary planning.
Maribel Macias presented the enrollment snapshot and projections, saying that district enrollment fell from about 60,000 in 2016 to about 48,000 in 2025 and that the district uses a cohort-based projection method and three- to four-year averages to forecast year-to-year counts. Macias told trustees that the October snapshot is the basis for staffing and that projection accuracy has typically been within about 1 to 2 percent.
The presentation highlighted open-enrollment inflows: about 5,110 students living outside EPISD boundaries chose EPISD schools, an increase to roughly 11% of…
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