Public schools

Most of Brownsville is served by Brownsville Independent School District. The B.I.S.D. counted its total enrollment in the 2003-04 at 45,986 students in 50 schools. It is the 17th largest school district in Texas. A portion of northern Brownsville is served by the Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District.

In addition, Brownsville residents are allowed to apply to magnet schools operated by the South Texas Independent School District, as well as B.I.S.D. magnet schools. Each B.I.S.D. high school has a magnet school within the school (example, Homer Hanna High School, a B.I.S.D. high school, has the district's medical magnet program).

[edit] Private and Parochial Schools

Grades 9-12:

* Saint Joseph Academy(grades 7 through 12)
* Valley Christian High School

Grades 1-8:

* Brownsville SDA School
* Episcopal Day School
* First Baptist School
* Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School
* Faith Christian Academy
* Guadalupe Regional Middle School
* Incarnate Word Academy
* Kenmont Montessori School
* St. Luke's Catholic School
* St. Mary's Catholic School

Universities and Colleges
UT School of Public Health
UT School of Public Health

* The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health (UTSPH), Brownsville Regional Campus

The university opened in 2001 as part of the legislated Regional Academic Health Center program, or RAHC and is phyically located on the campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville. UTSPH - Brownsville is a regional campus of the University of Texas School of Public Health statewide network which offer students a graduate certificate in public health and the Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) graduate degree in a subtropical, multicultural, bilingual, bordertown community. Major public health concerns of the faculty and researchers found here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Texas include diabetes, tuberculosis, obesity, cardiovascular disease and hepatitis. Other public health concerns include occupation health and safety (especially among the migrant and international communities), behavioral and lifestyle concerns among adolescents (pregnancy, STDs, and otherwise reckless decisions), air and environmental pollution, as well as examining the impacts and issues that are affected as a result of cross-border health, health care and prescription services. To date, over $10 million in research funding has been received by the Brownsville Regional Campus to address these local concerns.