GARDEN PARK EL

GARDEN PARK EL is an elementary school of small scale in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, part of BROWNSVILLE ISD, teacheing 372 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 519.

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

On demographics, GARDEN PARK EL logs that 99% 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.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible 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%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GARDEN PARK EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 30.7%; this one delivers 48.7%, a residual of +18.0 points.

Around the school, Cameron County reports that median household earnings sit near $52,601, 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 GARDEN PARK EL is one.

The closest other public school is PACE EARLY COLLEGE H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GARDEN PARK EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. GARDEN PARK EL's enrollment has ticked down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 595 (now 372). Class-load math has tightened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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