MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL

MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, one of the schools within CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, caters to 590 students in grades pre-K through 5.

CORPUS CHRISTI ISD comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 33,103 students; MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL shows that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Nueces County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Nueces County reports that median household income runs about $66,897, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Nueces County runs 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), of which MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL is one.

BAKER MIDDLE 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARY HELEN BERLANGA EL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 690 students in 2018 compared to 590 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 90% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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