Brown Early Childhood Center
Portales, NM · Elementary School
Brown Early Childhood Center is a elementary school in Portales, NM with 311 students enrolled and a 67% proficiency rate. Part of Portales Municipal Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Brown Early Childhood Center is a elementary school located in Portales, New Mexico. The school serves 311 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 67% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
18% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Brown Early Childhood Center is part of the Portales Municipal Schools in New Mexico.
How This School Compares
Brown Early Childhood Center has 311 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Portales Municipal Schools (435 students). Its 67% proficiency rate is 17 percentage points above the district average of 50%. Compared to the New Mexico state average of 37%, the school performs 30 points higher. With a 12.0:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Brown Early Childhood Center has 311 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 67% of students at Brown Early Childhood Center meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Brown Early Childhood Center is part of the Portales Municipal Schools in Portales, New Mexico. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.