KOLDA EL

KOLDA EL, a moderately sized K-5 school in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, run under CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, caters to 641 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KOLDA EL sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

KOLDA EL is one of 54 schools operated by CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, a district that teaches 33,103 students overall.

On the student-mix side, KOLDA EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%; the rest is composed of 13% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 46% of students at KOLDA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Nueces County's rate of about 67%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KOLDA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Nueces County shows median household income runs about $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%. In all, Nueces County runs 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), of which KOLDA EL is one.

The closest other public school is VETERANS MEMORIAL H S, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KOLDA EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. KOLDA EL's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 719 (now 641). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 31% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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