BRYSS ACADEMY H S

BRYSS ACADEMY H S is one of the rural-scale senior highs in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, run under RAUL YZAGUIRRE SCHOOLS FOR SUCCESS, with 27 students on its rolls from grade 9. Enrollment runs roughly 97% below the state mean of about 796.

RAUL YZAGUIRRE SCHOOLS FOR SUCCESS runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 1,991 students. BRYSS ACADEMY H S is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BRYSS ACADEMY H S lists that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BRYSS ACADEMY H S has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BRYSS ACADEMY H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at BRYSS ACADEMY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cameron County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Cameron County reports that median household earnings sit near $52,601, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), BRYSS ACADEMY H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRYSS ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. BRYSS ACADEMY H S operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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