📍 730 e 8th St, Brownsville, Cameron County, 78520
Putegnat el is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Brownsville, Cameron County. The school has 478 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Aidee Vasquez. It is part of the Brownsville Isd school district. It serves grades Pre-K–5 in an urban setting. The school employs 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 16.6:1. 8% of students are proficient in reading. 8% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Putegnat el enrolls 478 students across grades Pre-K–5. The student body is 51% male and 49% female. A teaching staff of 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 96% Hispanic or Latino and 4.4% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 457 | 96% |
| White | 21 | 4.4% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
471 of the school's 478 students (99%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 407 qualify for free lunch and 64 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Putegnat el is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Midsize). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district TX At-Large (non-voting delegate), state senate district 27, state house district 37.
Putegnat el is one of 56 schools in BROWNSVILLE ISD, based in BROWNSVILLE, Texas. The district serves 36,140 students district-wide and employs 2,575 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 478 students, Putegnat el is smaller than the district average of about 645 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: City - Midsize