# PENA EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168012087`
- **School name**: PENA EL
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78526
- **Address**: 4975 SALIDA DE LA LUNA
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.95415, -97.43823
- **Phone**: (956)547-7100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 501
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 97

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 84.8% proficient — 415 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.7% proficient, 22.4% advanced — 415 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 85.9% proficient — 177 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 90.2% proficient — 61 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 79.4% proficient — 63 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 88.7% proficient — 53 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 57.1% proficient, 19.2% advanced — 177 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 62.3% proficient, 13.1% advanced — 61 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 57.1% proficient, 23.8% advanced — 63 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 50.9% proficient, 20.8% advanced — 53 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.1% proficient — 177 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 88.5% proficient — 61 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 90.5% proficient — 63 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 84.9% proficient — 53 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 59.9% proficient, 28.8% advanced — 177 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 75.4% proficient, 36.1% advanced — 61 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.4% (53 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.2% (48 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 43.7% — 206 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,980
- **Federal share**: $899
- **State + local share**: $8,081
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 556
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,217,228
- **Federal share**: 30.3%
- **State share**: 55.9%
- **Local share**: 13.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,012,718

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,468
- **Poverty rate**: 7.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.5%
- **Unemployment**: 12.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,461
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 41.7 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.05 miles (GONZALEZ PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BROWNSVILLE PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2851 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IDEA ROBINDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **PERKINS MIDDLE** — 1.8 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 0.42%)
- **HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - BROWNSVILLE** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **BREEDEN EL** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/pena-el-brownsville/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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