BAKER MIDDLE

BAKER MIDDLE, a medium-sized middle school in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, one of the schools within CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, serves 937 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 46% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

CORPUS CHRISTI ISD comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 33,103 students; BAKER MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, BAKER MIDDLE shows that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 12% White, 5% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting BAKER MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BAKER MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.7%; this one delivers 50.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Nueces County) shows that median household income runs about $66,897, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Nueces County runs 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), of which BAKER MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BAKER MIDDLE at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. BAKER MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,040 (now 937). Class-load math has fell: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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