From schools for early education to nearby colleges and universities, here's what four local experts had to say about education in El Paso, Texas.
Education and Schools in El Paso, Texas
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El Paso is home to several professional sports teams: the El Paso Chihuahuas minor league baseball team, the El Paso Rhinos hockey team, the El Paso Locomotive soccer team as well as being home to the University of Texas at El Paso which features NCAA basketball and football games. El Paso is home to the Sun Bowl – the second-oldest bowl game in the country. El Paso is a great place to shop with numerous malls and outdoor marketplaces as well as “mom and pop” stores that sell culturally based items not found in many other parts of the country.
Although El Paso has a small population of roughly 682,000 people, the strong infrastructure of the highways, including interstate 10, that runs as far west as California and as far east as Louisiana, the airports, and the amtrak passenger rails, create opportunity for other people to travel to and through the city. The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a R1 Doctoral University due to its very high research activity. UTEP also offers an Engineering program that is the nation’s top producer of Hispanic engineers with M.S and Ph.D. degrees.
El Paso is home to more than twenty museums and more than thirty historical sites, including the only jail that Billy the Kid ever broke into. El Paso is a diverse area that is made up of many races and cultures. Its is a community of people who are accepting and inclusive. El Paso is the sister city to Juarez, Mexico, and almost 100,000 people cross back and forth across the US-Mexico border daily for work and school. You hear a lot of Spanish being spoken in El Paso. The people in El Paso are friendly and the food is fantastic.
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