GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL

GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, overseen by BROWNSVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 524 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 89% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cameron County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 45.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cameron County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL is one.

GARZA 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 GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GARZA AT SOUTHMOST EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 32%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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