CROMACK EL

Located at 3200 E 30TH ST, in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, CROMACK EL is a moderately sized elementary-level community that caters to 455 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within BROWNSVILLE ISD.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, CROMACK EL shows that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CROMACK EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CROMACK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 25.1%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cameron County) reports that median household income runs about $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), CROMACK EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CROMACK - CASTANEDA EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CROMACK EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 6-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 594 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2024.

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