PALM GROVE EL

PALM GROVE EL is one of the small elementary campuss in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, run under BROWNSVILLE ISD, with 294 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% below the state mean of about 519.

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

On the student-mix side, PALM GROVE EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). Other groups include 2% White. By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PALM GROVE EL has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cameron County's rate of about 84%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALM GROVE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Cameron County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 PALM GROVE EL is one.

LOPEZ EARLY COLLEGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALM GROVE EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PALM GROVE EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALM GROVE EL has edged down 33%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 294 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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