GIBSON EL

Set in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, GIBSON EL is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, run under CORPUS CHRISTI ISD. It caters to 421 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, which oversees 54 schools and 33,103 students, GIBSON EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, GIBSON EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest breaks down as 6% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Nueces County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Nueces County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, GIBSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nueces County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,897, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nueces County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), GIBSON EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL, around 2.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GIBSON EL. On composite proficiency, GIBSON EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. GIBSON EL's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 469 (now 421). White enrollment moved from 13% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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