KELLER EL

KELLER EL is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, one of the schools within BROWNSVILLE ISD. The school caters to 537 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, KELLER EL records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, KELLER EL records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KELLER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the broader community, Cameron County reports that median household earnings sit near $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which KELLER EL is one.

MANZANO MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KELLER EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.