Silva Magnet High School is a health-focused magnet high school within the
El Paso Independent School District
The El Paso Independent School District (or EPISD) is the largest school district serving El Paso, Texas (USA). Originally organized in 1883, it is currently the largest district in the Texas Education Agency's Educational Service Center (ESC) ...
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El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the county seat, seat of El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau w ...
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It is named after lifelong El Pasoa
Maxine L. Silva who once represented the area in which the school is located on the El Paso Independent School District board of trustees.
Campus
Silva Magnet High School is a three-story, one-building campus located on the grounds of Jefferson High School in south-central El Paso.
The University Medical Center (formerly Thomason General Hospital) and the Texas Tech University Health Science Center are located directly across the street from Silva. Students from middle schools throughout the county apply for admission to the high school during 8th grade, leading to a diverse body of students from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds from throughout El Paso County.
School within a School
Ms. Charmine Deremeir was the first administrator (1993-1994) of the El Paso Magnet High School for the Health Care Professions, now known as the Maxine Silva Magnet High School for the Health Care Professions. She was instrumental in assuring the placement of the Health Magnet High School and working closely with the first group of students (Class of 1997) and their parents in determining what needed to be done to ensure that Silva would be seen as a model school.
School prestige
Among El Paso schools (private and public), Silva Magnet High School has consistently ranked academically at or near the top in various categories. In 2006,
Newsweek
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magazine ranked Silva Magnet High School as one of the top 1000 schools in the U.S. and was rated the highest of schools in El Paso on the list.
In 2003, 2011, and 2017 Silva received the Blue Ribbon Schools Award.
U.S. Representative - Silvestre Reyes
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Educational institutions established in 1993
High schools in El Paso, Texas
El Paso Independent School District high schools
Magnet schools in Texas
1993 establishments in Texas