BREEDEN EL

BREEDEN EL is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, run under BROWNSVILLE ISD, with 511 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

BROWNSVILLE ISD runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 37,097 students. BREEDEN EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, BREEDEN EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, BREEDEN EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.4%; BREEDEN EL posts 52.8%, +15.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cameron County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), BREEDEN EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GALLEGOS EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BREEDEN EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BREEDEN EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 696 students in 2018 compared to 511 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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