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Does BURNS EL have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
651
Elementary
DISTRICT 534 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWNSVILLE ISD·NCES 481168005849
BURNS EL
1974 ALTON GLOOR BLVD, BROWNSVILLE, TX 78521 · (956) 548-8490 · Cameron County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL651 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
610 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
55.0%
TX avg 51.8% . +33.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
64.0%
TX avg 42.0% . +46.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 46 points.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
651
-151 (-19%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.1:1
% White
3%
was 0%
% Hispanic
97%
was 99%
% Black
0%
was 0%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About BURNS EL
As a reasonably sized elementary school in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, BURNS EL hosts 651 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by BROWNSVILLE ISD. That puts it 25% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Within BROWNSVILLE ISD, which oversees 52 schools and 37,097 students, BURNS EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, BURNS EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The remainder comes out to 3% White.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BURNS EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BURNS EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, BURNS EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.0%; actual is 58.5%, +25.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cameron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. BURNS EL is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).
Nearest neighbor: PROMESA COLLEGE PREP BROWNSVILLE, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BURNS EL. On composite proficiency, BURNS EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BURNS EL has declined 19%, going from 802 students in 2018 to 651 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.
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Cameron County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
426,120
Census ACS
Median income
$52,601
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
21%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
97,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BROWNSVILLE ISD
- VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,216 students
- RIVERA EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,150 students
- HANNA EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,039 students
- LOPEZ EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,739 students
- PACE EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,621 students
- PORTER EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,543 students
Other schools in BROWNSVILLE
- VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,216 students
- RIVERA EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,150 students
- HANNA EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,039 students
- LOPEZ EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,739 students
- PACE EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,621 students
- PORTER EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,543 students
Nearby schools
- PROMESA COLLEGE PREP BROWNSVILLE0.1 mi · 185
- VELA MIDDLE0.3 mi · 658
- IDEA BROWNSVILLE ACADEMY0.8 mi · 702
- IDEA BROWNSVILLE COLLEGE PREPARATORY0.8 mi · 783
- JUBILEE BROWNSVILLE1.1 mi · 999
- PAREDES EL1.2 mi · 798
Frequently asked questions
About BURNS ELWhat is the total enrollment at BURNS EL?
BURNS EL enrolls approximately 651 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does BURNS EL serve?
BURNS EL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at BURNS EL?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at BURNS EL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BURNS EL?
At BURNS EL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 97% Hispanic.
Who oversees BURNS EL?
BURNS EL is overseen by BROWNSVILLE ISD in Cameron County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.