MARTIN EL

MARTIN EL is one of the tight-knit elementary campuss in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, operated by BROWNSVILLE ISD, with 415 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MARTIN EL sits 20% below that benchmark.

Across the 52 schools in BROWNSVILLE ISD (37,097 students total), MARTIN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MARTIN EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, MARTIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cameron County) logs that 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%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which MARTIN EL is one.

STELL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MARTIN EL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARTIN EL has contracted 12%, going from 473 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 5% to 0%.

On the community side, the feed for MARTIN EL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.