Enrollment
331
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORPUS CHRISTI ISD·NCES 481527001038
Allen Elementary School
1414 18TH ST, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78404 · (361) 878-2140 · Nueces County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL331 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
318 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
50.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +50.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
41.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +37.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 50 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 37 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 23.0% | 27.0% | 20.0% | 30.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 25.0% | 21.0% | 38.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 41.0% |
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 20.0% |
| 2022-23 | 21.0% | 33.0% |
| 2021-22 | 43.0% | 33.0% |
| 2020-21 | 0.0% | 4.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Allen Elementary School
Allen Elementary School's state test result (25.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Elementary School this school | 331 | 96.1% | 25.6% |
| L O Donald Elementary School DALLAS | 324 | 95.7% | 43.5% |
| Bishop Arts Steam Academy DALLAS | 349 | 96.0% | 37.3% |
| George Peabody Elementary School DALLAS | 318 | 94.7% | 43.3% |
| Houston Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 356 | 95.2% | 40.9% |
| Maria Moreno Steam Academy DALLAS | 344 | 95.6% | 39.9% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Allen Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Nueces County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #4,010 of 4,401 | #45 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #2,711 of 4,466 ▲ 918 | #34 of 51 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #2,482 of 4,466 ▲ 1,083 | #31 of 51 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +18.5pp | #602 of 3,998 | #5 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 331 | #4,003 of 4,938 | #44 of 58 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,551 of 4,622 | #9 of 53 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.1% | #3,825 of 4,628 | #40 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.1% | #380 of 4,789 | #4 of 56 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #2,447 of 2,838 | #34 of 38 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
331
+81 (+32%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 586
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 331 | 23.6 | 14.0:1 | 96% (318) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 25.6 | 12.2:1 | 96% (301) |
| 2022-23 | 219 | 17.3 | 12.7:1 | 95% (208) |
| 2020-21 | 250 | 18 | 13.9:1 | 97% (243) |
| 2017-18 | 349 | 23 | 15.2:1 | 98% (343) |
| 2015-16 | 357 | 23 | 15.5:1 | 91% (324) |
| 2010-11 | 407 | 26 | 15.7:1 | 97% (393) |
| 2000-01 | 505 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 94% (476) |
| 1990-91 | 586 | 37 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Allen Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (349 to 331); teachers up 3% (23 to 23.6).
About Allen Elementary School
Allen Elementary School is a small elementary school in Texas, with an address in CORPUS CHRISTI. The school had 331 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Texas) has about 519 students.
In CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, 54 schools enroll a combined 33,103 students.
Most students at Allen Elementary School are Hispanic: 90% of enrollment. Other groups include 5% White and 3% Black. The county population is about 63% Hispanic. By the diversity index, Allen Elementary School comes in at 18%.
Allen Elementary School employs 23.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 14.0:1. That ratio is under the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 96% in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Nueces County report 67%.
After adjusting for student poverty, Allen Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.6%; the prediction is 32.7%.
Within Nueces County, median household income is about $66,897, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Nueces County number 124 and enroll about 59,619.
Nearest public school: Wynn Seale Metropolitan School of Design, about 0.5 miles away. The five-mile area around Allen Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Allen Elementary School at 7th of 7.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
The student count in 2024-25 was 331, 32% above the 250 of 2020-21.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Nueces County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
352,955
Census ACS
Median income
$66,897
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
124
59,619 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CORPUS CHRISTI ISD
- Veterans Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,026 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 1,928 students
- Ray High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Roy Miller H S and Metro School of DesignHigh · 1,424 students
- Moody High SchoolHigh · 1,326 students
- King High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
Other schools in CORPUS CHRISTI
- Sst Corpus ChristiCombined · 2,343 students
- Veterans Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,026 students
- Flour Bluff High SchoolHigh · 1,940 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 1,928 students
- Ray High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Roy Miller H S and Metro School of DesignHigh · 1,424 students
Other Allen Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 10 states are named Allen Elementary. Allen Elementary School is the 10th largest of the 12.
- Allen Elementary SchoolFRISCO, TX · 677 students
- Allen Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 442 students
- Allen ElemWichita, KS · 514 students
- Allen Elementary SchoolAllen, KY · 462 students
- Allen Elementary SchoolColumbus, GA · 436 students
Nearby schools
- Wynn Seale Metropolitan School of Design0.5 mi · 682
- Corpus Christi Montessori School0.7 mi · 139
- Collegiate High School0.8 mi · 390
- Promesa College Prep West Corpus Christi0.9 mi · 358
- Menger Elementary School1.0 mi · 243
- Zavala Elementary School1.0 mi · 433
Frequently asked questions
About Allen Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Allen Elementary School?
Allen Elementary School enrolls approximately 331 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Allen Elementary School serve?
Allen Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Allen Elementary School?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Allen Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Allen Elementary School?
At Allen Elementary School, the student body is approximately 5% White, 90% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Allen Elementary School public or private?
Allen Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by CORPUS CHRISTI ISD.
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