Fabens El, Fabens TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Fabens El

Fabens Elementary serves students in pre-kindergarten through third grade in the town of Fabens, located in El Paso County. The school enrolls a small-to-midsize population, with roughly balanced representation across the elementary grades. The student body is nearly entirely Hispanic, and an overwhelming majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a community with significant economic need.

The school's academic performance, measured by state testing in grade three, shows low proficiency in both math and English language arts. In both subjects, roughly one in five third-graders met the state proficiency standard in the most recent year. When positioned against other school districts in El Paso County, Fabens Elementary's overall proficiency sits in the bottom quartile. This is a real gap that a parent may want to explore further with the school and district, including what interventions or supports are in place for early reading and mathematics, and what the learning trajectory looks like across the early grades where foundations are being built.

Housing in the Fabens area is relatively affordable compared to broader regional and national benchmarks. Home values and monthly mortgage costs sit well below state and national medians, which may matter for families considering the town as a place to live while their children attend school. Rent costs as a share of household income are moderate and competitive with national affordability standards.

The school is a regular public school operated by Fabens Independent School District. No recent district-level changes or initiatives were identified in available sources, so parents may want to ask the school directly about current priorities and efforts around early literacy and numeracy. State assessment data was available only for grade three, the highest grade served, so no picture of performance across the pre-K through second-grade span is available from standardized testing. Special education enrollment data and English learner data were not reported. These gaps likely reflect the school's focus on the early grades, where such detail is less commonly published, rather than missing capacity in the school itself.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 321%

School 21% · District 18% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 321%

School 21% · District 24% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

This schoolFABENS ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income16%Higher-income17%1 pp gap