GRANT MIDDLE

GRANT MIDDLE, an average-sized middle school in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, part of CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, caters to 772 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so GRANT MIDDLE sits 20% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, GRANT MIDDLE records that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 13% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GRANT MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Nueces County shows 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%. In all, Nueces County runs 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), of which GRANT MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: DAWSON EL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GRANT MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

GRANT MIDDLE operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. GRANT MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 947 (now 772). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 73% to 81%.

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