Brownsville Elementary

Brownsville Elementary operates as a mid-sized primary school in SILVERDALE, Washington, overseen by Central Kitsap School District. Current enrollment sits at 422 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Central Kitsap School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,100 students; Brownsville Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Brownsville Elementary logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 14% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kitsap County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Brownsville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 67.1%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kitsap County put the typical household earns roughly $104,158 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Kitsap County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), of which Brownsville Elementary is one.

Esquire Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brownsville Elementary. On composite proficiency, Brownsville Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brownsville Elementary has shrank 7%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 422 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 7% to 13%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.