Gonzalez Elementary School

Size

Of the 31 elementary schools in Brownsville ISD, Gonzalez Elementary School is the 12th largest, with 1.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 635 students, so Gonzalez Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 102 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 75, against an average of 85 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% more students than kindergarten (92 against 82). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 102 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Brownsville ISD (98.5%).

88.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.3% across Brownsville ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Gonzalez Elementary School has 38.33 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 596 students would have about 40.3 teachers, so Gonzalez Elementary School has 2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Robindale Academy, 0.6 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 31 elementary schools within 5 miles and 46 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.