CALALLEN MIDDLE

As a reasonably sized intermediate school in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, CALALLEN MIDDLE serves 858 students from grades 6 through 8, run under CALALLEN ISD. That puts it 33% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

CALALLEN MIDDLE is one of 6 schools operated by CALALLEN ISD, a district that serves 3,745 students overall.

Demographically, CALALLEN MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% White. That composition is broadly in line with Nueces County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at CALALLEN MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nueces County (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CALALLEN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Nueces County) reports that 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%. CALALLEN MIDDLE is one of 124 public schools in Nueces County (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students).

WILMA MAGEE INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CALALLEN MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, CALALLEN MIDDLE comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. CALALLEN MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 973 (now 858). Hispanic enrollment moved from 60% to 66% across the same window.

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