COLLINS INT

As a mid-tier middle-grades school in CORSICANA, Texas, COLLINS INT caters to 891 students from grades 5 through 6, part of CORSICANA ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so COLLINS INT sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

CORSICANA ISD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,998 students. COLLINS INT is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, COLLINS INT lists that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 23% White, 14% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, COLLINS INT has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Navarro County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COLLINS INT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.4%; this one delivers 33.9%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Navarro County put the typical household earns roughly $63,111 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Navarro County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,681 students), of which COLLINS INT is one.

BOWIE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, COLLINS INT comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COLLINS INT has remained close to its prior level, going from 906 students in 2018 to 891 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 48% to 54%.

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