ADKINS MIDDLE

ADKINS MIDDLE is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, run under CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, with 518 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

CORPUS CHRISTI ISD runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 33,103 students. ADKINS MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ADKINS MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% White, 4% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nueces County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, ADKINS MIDDLE shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at ADKINS MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nueces County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ADKINS MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.6%; this one delivers 43.8%.

In the broader community, census data for Nueces County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,897 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. ADKINS MIDDLE is one of 124 public schools in Nueces County (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students).

Nearest neighbor: BARNES EL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ADKINS MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ADKINS MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. ADKINS MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 678 (now 518). White enrollment moved from 20% to 13% across the same window.

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