BRITE EL

BRITE EL is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, run under BROWNSVILLE ISD, enrolling 584 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within BROWNSVILLE ISD, which oversees 52 schools and 37,097 students, BRITE EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BRITE EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BRITE EL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at BRITE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Cameron County's rate of about 84%.

After controlling for student poverty, BRITE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +10.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cameron County indicate median household income runs about $52,601, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which BRITE EL is one.

The closest other public school is LUCIO MIDDLE, roughly 1.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRITE EL. On composite proficiency, BRITE EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. BRITE EL's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 584). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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