CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL

Set in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL is a sizable K-5 school, one of the schools within BROWNSVILLE ISD. It serves 823 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL sits 59% bigger than that benchmark.

CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL is one of 52 schools operated by BROWNSVILLE ISD, a district that educates 37,097 students overall.

On demographics, CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Cameron County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CROMACK EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.0%.

CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL's enrollment has increased 30% since 2018, when it stood at 631 (now 823).

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