Russell Elementary School

Size

Of the 31 elementary schools in Brownsville ISD, Russell Elementary School is the 24th largest, with 1.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 424 students, so Russell 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 grade 5 with 70 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 45, against an average of 60 per grade. This year grade 5 has 56% more students than kindergarten (70 against 45). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 63 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 98.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Brownsville ISD (98.5%).

97.8% 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

Russell Elementary School has 27.12 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 418 students would have about 28.2 teachers, so Russell Elementary School has 1.1 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 Harmony Science Academy - Brownsville, 0.3 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - South Texas. There are 30 elementary schools within 5 miles and 44 within 10 miles.

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