Pena Elementary School

Size

Pena Elementary School is the 21st largest of Brownsville ISD's 31 elementary schools; its 501 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 625; Pena 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 117 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 54, against an average of 72 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 54 in kindergarten and 56 in grade 5. It also enrolls 117 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

90.4% of its students are eligible 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

With 31 full-time-equivalent teachers for 501 students, Pena Elementary School has 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 501 students would have about 33.9 teachers, so Pena Elementary School has 2.9 fewer.

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

Location

Pena Elementary School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Robindale Academy, 1.1 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 46 other elementary schools, 25 of them within 5 miles.

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