Ysleta Independent School District

Ysleta ISD is the third largest school district in the city of El Paso.

[citation needed] All of the district area covers sections of El Paso.

[2] In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

[3] The Texas Education Agency's college readiness performance data shows that only 5% (148 out of 2836 students) of the graduates of the class of 2010 of the Ysleta school district met TEA's average performance criterion on SAT or ACT college admission tests.

Margarita Espino Calderón and Liliana Minaya-Rowe, authors of Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs, wrote that the student population of Ysleta ISD was "heterogenous.