# SOUTHMOST EL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/southmost-el-brownsville/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/southmost-el-brownsville

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168006518`
- **School name**: SOUTHMOST EL
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78521
- **Address**: 5245 SOUTHMOST RD
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.89339, -97.43872
- **Phone**: (956)548-8870

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 524
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 99

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 86.5% proficient — 281 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 64.1% proficient, 23.1% advanced — 281 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.3% proficient — 120 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 90.0% proficient — 40 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 83.7% proficient — 43 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 91.9% proficient — 37 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 68.3% proficient, 25.0% advanced — 120 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 70.0% proficient, 17.5% advanced — 40 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 62.8% proficient, 25.6% advanced — 43 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 73.0% proficient, 32.4% advanced — 37 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 85.1% proficient — 121 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 92.5% proficient — 40 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 79.5% proficient — 44 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 83.8% proficient — 37 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 62.0% proficient, 21.5% advanced — 121 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 70.0% proficient, 25.0% advanced — 40 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.6% (32 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.4% (22 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**: 97.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.3% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 41.2% — 142 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,860
- **Federal share**: $907
- **State + local share**: $9,953
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 359
### 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**: $42,681
- **Poverty rate**: 23.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $944
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 43.0 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.90 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**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **GARZA EL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.16%)
- **BESTEIRO MIDDLE** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.16%)
- **IDEA FRONTIER ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.16%)
- **IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.16%)
- **LOPEZ EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 1.3 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 1.16%)

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