El Paso Independent School District

School district in Texas, United States
the school district serving Eagle Pass, Texas with the acronym EPISD

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) Region 19, as well as the largest district within the city of El Paso and El Paso County. The EPISD also provides public education to the children of U. S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss. The district headquarters are located in El Paso. In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

The EPISD is managed by a school board (called the Board of Trustees) composed of seven publicly elected school board trustees and a single superintendent. Each trustee represents one of the seven districts in the EPISD.

Its current headquarters are in Downtown El Paso. It includes two buildings: an , eight story building that was acquired and a newly built , three story building. The district began leasing a property on the grounds of El Paso International Airport in 1963 to house its administrative headquarters. By the 2010s the City of El Paso desired the use of the property for airport expansion, but chose to defer the original 2014 expiration of the lease to at least December 31, 2019 so EPISD had time to find a new headquarters location. In 2021 the current EPISD headquarters opened. Shoshana Johnson, a famed Iraq War POW, is a graduate of Andress High School. Tom Lea, famed author and painter, was a graduate of El Paso High School. Tom Moore, a cartoonist best known for the "Archie" comic books series, is a 1946 graduate of Austin High School. John Moyer, the current bassist for the rock band Disturbed, is a graduate of Coronado High School Sandra Day O'Connor, a former U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, is a graduate of Austin High School. John D. Olivas, a NASA astronaut, is a graduate of Burges High School. Lupe Ontiveros, a veteran actress, was a graduate of El Paso High School. Nolan Richardson, a nationally recognized basketball coach, graduated from Bowie High School. Rubén Salazar, a noted Mexican American journalist, was a graduate of El Paso High School.

Richard Ramirez, known as The Night Stalker, a serial killer who died of natural causes while awaiting execution in California, attended Jefferson High School but dropped out. Debbie Reynolds attended Houston and Crockett Elementary Schools before her family moved to California. Sharon Tate, actress and Manson Family murder victim, attended Irvin High School briefly in 1959 and 1960.