PEREZ EL

PEREZ EL is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, overseen by BROWNSVILLE ISD, instructing 615 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PEREZ EL is one of 52 schools operated by BROWNSVILLE ISD, a district that caters to 37,097 students overall.

Demographically, PEREZ EL lists that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PEREZ EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PEREZ EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.2%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the broader community, Cameron County reports that median household income runs about $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. PEREZ EL is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).

HANNA EARLY COLLEGE H S 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. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PEREZ EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 31%: 470 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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