DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL

DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL operates as a mid-sized primary school in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, operated by BROWNSVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 526 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL reports that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.0%; this one delivers 38.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cameron County) logs that median household earnings sit near $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL is one.

DEL CASTILLO EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 660 students in 2018 compared to 526 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the DEL CASTILLO - MORNINGSIDE EL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.