Live in Pebble Hills
Six Pebble Hills plats of 1975 to 1979 between Lee Trevino Drive and the back of Red Sails Drive, in Ysleta ISD, where the school tax rate is higher than El Paso ISD's but a homesteaded owner pays less, and where FEMA's preliminary map draws three ponding areas among the houses that the effective map never showed.
Pebble Hills is a name the developers gave to seventeen numbered plats filed between 1971 and 1984 across six of the City's neighborhoods; this guide is the two the City calls Pebble Hills North and Pebble Hills South, 406 acres between Montana Avenue and Pebble Hills Boulevard, built mostly on units 6 to 16 of 1975 to 1979. The 2020 census counted 5,495 residents in 2,030 homes, against 6,171 in slightly fewer homes in 2010, and owners lived in 68% of the occupied homes. All of it is Ysleta ISD, whose extra 20% homestead exemption changes the arithmetic of the bill, and none of it is near Pebble Hills High School, which is a Socorro ISD school about 10 km east. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 79936, which holds every resident, was $225,771 in August 2026, up 2.5% on the year, but the ZIP held more than 105,000 people in 2020 and is not a Pebble Hills price.
A 1970s subdivision name spread over six neighborhoods, and the two the City calls Pebble Hills
The City of El Paso's Pebble Hills North (FID 38) and Pebble Hills South (FID 39) neighborhoods on its Neighborhood Boundaries layer, taken together: 227 and 179 acres on the layer's own figures. Traced against the Census Bureau's road file, the outline is Montana Avenue (US 62) on the north; North Lee Trevino Drive on the west; Pebble Hills Boulevard on the south; and on the east a line that follows no street, running behind the houses between McLean Street and Red Sails Drive and reaching Breckenridge Drive near Montana. Edgemere Boulevard divides North from South. The City's Pebble Hills Park and Pebble Brook neighborhoods, west across Lee Trevino Drive, carry plats of the same name but are separate features and are left out; with them the four held 9,465 residents in 2020. No neighborhood association registered with the City covers the reference point. Fort Bliss's land lies about 330 m north, across Montana Avenue. All of the guide is in El Paso County, Ysleta ISD and City Council District 3, and west of Joe Battle Boulevard (Loop 375).
Pebble Hills began as a developer's name. Seventeen numbered Pebble Hills plats were filed on the City's map between 1971 and 1984, and they now lie in six of the City's neighborhoods, from Scotsdale and Album in the west to the Indian Ridge neighborhoods in the east. This guide takes the two the City itself calls Pebble Hills North and South, 406 acres between Montana Avenue and Pebble Hills Boulevard, east of Lee Trevino Drive, built mostly on units 6 to 16, filed from 1975 to 1979. The 2020 census counted 5,495 residents in 2,030 homes, against 6,171 in slightly fewer homes in 2010, so fewer people now live in each house. Owners lived in 68% of the occupied homes, and 23% of the residents were under 18. The name misleads in one way: Pebble Hills High School is a Socorro ISD school about 10 km east, in Tierra del Este, and has nothing to do with this guide.
The school tax rate is higher, and a homestead pays less. Every block is in Ysleta ISD, and the five taxing units on a City and Ysleta ISD address add to 2.763493 per $100 for 2025, against 2.643693 with El Paso ISD. But Ysleta ISD takes 20% off a homestead on top of the state's $140,000, and El Paso ISD takes nothing extra. On $225,771, Zillow's August 2026 value for ZIP code 79936, up 2.5% on the year, a homestead here owes about $3,955 a year, against $4,395 for the same house in El Paso ISD. Without the exemption the order flips: a landlord owes about $6,239 here and $5,969 there. The ZIP held more than 105,000 people in 2020, so its value is not a Pebble Hills price. The arithmetic is on the El Paso page.
The new flood map finds water where the old one was silent. FEMA's effective panels of 2006 are digital for only 3% of the guide, and the rest has to be read on scanned panels at its Map Service Center. Its preliminary countywide map, issued on 8 August 2025 and not yet in force, puts 4.7% of the guide in the 1% annual chance zone and 9.8% in the 0.2% zone, with 478 residents on blocks in the first and 145 in the second. No arroyo carries the water here. FEMA labels the three zones inside the line ponding areas, P5 and P5a north of Edgemere Boulevard and P8 south of it: low ground where storm water collects, with base flood elevations of 3,968 to 3,970.6 feet. A preliminary map can change before it takes effect, but a buyer should know which side of its line a house is on.
The schools are all just outside the line. Ysleta ISD's SchoolSearch returns Pebble Hills Elementary, east on Edgemere Boulevard and rated A (91) for 2026, for the reference point and 3,441 residents, and Robbin E. L. Washington Elementary, across Lee Trevino Drive and rated B (85), for the other 2,054. Every block goes to Hanks Middle School, B (88), and J. M. Hanks High School, A (93).
The edges are busier than the inside. Fort Bliss's land begins about 330 m north, across Montana Avenue, where Montana Brio stops at the Lee Trevino park and ride every 30 to 35 minutes on weekdays. Route 51 runs through the guide on Edgemere Boulevard. There is no City park, library or recreation center inside the line, and no neighborhood association registered with the City covers its center.
- Look the address up on FEMA's preliminary map as well as the scanned effective panel
- File for the homestead exemption with the El Paso Central Appraisal District; Ysleta ISD's extra 20% depends on it
- Run your own address through Ysleta ISD's SchoolSearch: two elementary zones split this guide
- Do not assume Pebble Hills High School; it is Socorro ISD's, 10 km east
How Pebble Hills got here
- 1971Pebble Hills Unit 1 is filed on the City's subdivision map, in what the City now calls Scotsdale; units 2 to 5 follow by 1974 in Album, Pebble Brook and Pebble Hills Park, west of today's line.
- 1975Pebble Hills Unit 6 is filed, 64 acres, the first plat inside the guide.
- 1976Units 8 and 12 are filed, 93 and 19 acres; Unit 11 follows in 1977.
- 1978Unit 9 is filed, 71 acres, and Unit 16, 41 acres, follows in 1979, the last Pebble Hills plat inside the line; the series ends with Unit 17, outside it, in 1983.
- 1980The Ivanhoe plat, 11 acres, is filed inside the guide.
- 1999Oasis Ranch, 39 acres, is filed, the last large residential plat inside the line.
- 2010The census counts 6,171 residents and 1,996 homes on the blocks inside today's line.
- 2020The census counts 5,495 residents and 2,030 homes, 11% fewer people in slightly more homes; owners live in 1,328 of the 1,967 occupied homes.
- 2025FEMA issues its preliminary countywide flood map for El Paso County on 8 August; it draws three ponding areas inside the guide in the 1% zone, where the 2006 digital panels cover only 3% of it.
- 2026The state rates Pebble Hills Elementary A (91) and J. M. Hanks High School A (93) in September.
No park inside the line, a small one across Lee Trevino, and the desert out Montana
The City's parks layer puts no park inside the guide. The nearest is Pebble Hills Park, 8.5 acres on Fierro Drive across Lee Trevino Drive, with the Eastside Senior Center. Eastwood Park, 45 acres on Parkwood Street, holds the nearest City recreation center, and out Montana Avenue Hueco Tanks State Park keeps its rock imagery and bouldering on permits of 70 people a day.
What the map does not show: the wind. The windy season peaks in March and April, and El Paso had 12 dust storms in 2025, out of 36 dust events from February to June.
Elsewhere in El Paso, not Pebble Hills
19 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–12 of 19 places, nearest first.
Method: distances are straight lines from the population-weighted center of the neighborhoods' census blocks, multiplied by a road factor, with a tiered speed model for the drive: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
Nothing is inside the line. The nearest City recreation center is the Gary Del Palacio Recreation Center in Eastwood Park, with two gyms and a weight room; the nearest City pool is the indoor Marty Robbins Aquatic Center on Vista Del Sol Drive; and the nearest YMCA is the Loya Family YMCA on Trawood Drive.
- Gary Del Palacio Recreation Center: about 3.5 km
- Marty Robbins Aquatic Center: about 7.0 km, 25-yard pool
- Loya Family YMCA: about 4.5 km, closed Sunday
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Gary Del Palacio Recreation Center open | The nearest City recreation center, at 3001 Parkwood Street in Eastwood Park: a large and a small gym, a weight room, a dance studio, racquetball and pickleball courts. Open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, closed Sunday. | 6–9 min |
| Marty Robbins Aquatic Center open | The nearest City pool, an indoor 25-yard competitive pool at 11600 Vista Del Sol Drive, open all year: 5 a.m. to noon and 5:30 to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday. $3 for adults, $2 for children and seniors. The Marty Robbins Recreation Center is beside it. | 9–14 min |
| Loya Family YMCA open | The nearest YMCA of El Paso branch, at 2044 Trawood Drive: open 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday, to 7 p.m. on Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, closed Sunday. | 7–11 min |
| Pebble Hills Park open | The free option: the City's 8.5-acre park at 3200 Fierro Drive, west across Lee Trevino Drive, the nearest open ground; the guide has no City park of its own. | 4–6 min |
The free option is Pebble Hills Park, across Lee Trevino Drive.
Ysleta ISD, two elementary zones, and none of the schools inside
Every block is in the Ysleta Independent School District. Its SchoolSearch sends 3,441 residents to Pebble Hills Elementary, A (91), and 2,054 to Robbin E. L. Washington Elementary, B (85), and every block to Hanks Middle School, B (88), and J. M. Hanks High School, A (93).
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Pebble Hills Elementary School | Ysleta Independent School District | 11145 Edgemere Boulevard, just east of the guide, early education to grade 5. Ysleta ISD's SchoolSearch returns it for the reference point and for the blocks holding 3,441 of the 5,495 residents. The Texas Education Agency rated it A, 91, for 2026 after B, 87, for 2025. |
| Robbin E. L. Washington Elementary School | Ysleta Independent School District | 3505 Lee Trevino Drive, just west of the guide, early education to grade 5. SchoolSearch returns it for the blocks holding the other 2,054 residents. Rated B, 85, for 2026 after B, 87, for 2025. |
| Hanks Middle School | Ysleta Independent School District | 11201 Pebble Hills Boulevard, grades 6 to 8, returned for every populated block. Rated B, 88, for 2026 after B, 87, for 2025. |
| J. M. Hanks High School | Ysleta Independent School District | 2001 Lee Trevino Drive, grades 9 to 12, returned for every populated block. Rated A, 93, for 2026 and for 2025. It is not Pebble Hills High School, which belongs to Socorro ISD and stands about 10 km east in Tierra del Este. SchoolSearch states no school year and says its results do not guarantee placement, so confirm an address with the district. |
Run your own address. SchoolSearch states no school year and says its results do not guarantee placement, so confirm the zone with the district before you rely on it.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The El Paso Central Appraisal District values every property as of 1 January; last year's bill is due by 31 January
- Highs near 15 °C and lows near 1 °C at El Paso International, with about 14 nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal
- About 10 mm of rain and 20 mm of snow on the normal
- Penalty and interest start on unpaid tax bills on 1 February
- Highs near 18 °C and lows near 4 °C; dust can come this early
- The windy season climbs to its peak in March and April; El Paso had 12 dust storms in 2025
- Highs near 22 °C and 6 mm of rain
- Highs near 27 °C and 4 mm of rain, the driest month on the normal
- The dust season's peak; dust events ran from February to June in 2025
- 15 May, or 30 days after the appraisal notice is mailed if that is later, is the deadline to protest a value
- Highs near 32 °C, with about 16 days reaching 32 °C (90 °F)
- Highs near 36 °C, the hottest afternoons of the year, with about 11 days reaching 38 °C (100 °F)
- 18 mm of rain as the monsoon gathers
- The monsoon arrives: 40 mm of rain on the normal, in short, heavy storms; on FEMA's preliminary map the water here collects in ponding areas rather than running down an arroyo
- Highs near 35 °C and the warmest nights, near 23 °C
- 42 mm of rain, the wettest month on the normal
- Highs near 34 °C, with about 26 days reaching 32 °C
- 39 mm of rain as the monsoon tails off
- Highs near 31 °C, with about 15 days still reaching 32 °C
- The Amigo Airsho flies on 24 and 25 October 2026 at Biggs Army Airfield on Fort Bliss
- Highs near 26 °C and 15 mm of rain
- Highs near 19 °C and lows near 6 °C, with about five nights at or below freezing
- About 11 mm of rain and 13 mm of snow on the normal
- Highs near 14 °C and lows near 1 °C, with about 14 freezing nights
- 16 mm of rain and 33 mm of snow on the normal; the tax bill for the year is due by 31 January
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