KING H S

KING H S is a 9-12 campus of substantial scale in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, part of CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, teacheing 1,279 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 61% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

KING H S is one of 54 schools operated by CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, a district that enrolls 33,103 students overall.

On demographics, KING H S logs that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 14% White, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 70% of students at KING H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, KING H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Nueces County put median household earnings sit near $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%. Across Nueces County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), KING H S is one campus in the mix.

WINDSOR PARK G/T is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KING H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KING H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.9%.

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

Five-year trend. KING H S's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 1,522 (now 1,279). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 74% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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