📍 1439 Palm Blvd, Brownsville, Cameron County, 78520
Sharp el is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Brownsville, Cameron County. The school has 470 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Mary Rodriguez. It is part of the Brownsville Isd school district. It serves grades Pre-K–5 in an urban setting. The school employs 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 16.3:1. 22% of students are proficient in reading. 12% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Sharp el enrolls 470 students across grades Pre-K–5. The student body is 46% male and 54% female. A teaching staff of 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 99% Hispanic or Latino and 1.3% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 464 | 99% |
| White | 6 | 1.3% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
421 of the school's 470 students (90%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 328 qualify for free lunch and 93 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Sharp 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.
Sharp 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 470 students, Sharp 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