Enrollment
243
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORPUS CHRISTI ISD·NCES 481527001072
Menger Elementary School
2401 S ALAMEDA ST, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78404 · (361) 878-2640 · Nueces County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL243 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 69% of Texas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
210 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 58% larger than its 5th grade class (26).
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
47.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +33.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
42.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +13.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 22.0% | 25.0% | 33.0% | 20.0% |
| Mathematics | 18.0% | 24.0% | 26.0% | 32.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 47.0% | 42.0% |
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 17.0% | 17.0% |
| 2020-21 | 14.0% | 29.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Menger Elementary School
Menger Elementary School's state test result (43.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menger Elementary School this school | 243 | 86.4% | 43.3% |
| San Jacinto Elementary School SAN ANGELO | 254 | 87.8% | 23.8% |
| Bloomington Elementary School BLOOMINGTON | 223 | 82.5% | 25.7% |
| Placedo Elementary School PLACEDO | 210 | 84.8% | N/A |
| Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco Elementary School ALICE | 238 | 90.3% | 48.1% |
| Sanders Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 279 | 86.7% | 37.2% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Menger Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Nueces County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #2,177 of 4,401 | #22 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #2,600 of 4,466 ▼ 807 | #30 of 51 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,847 of 4,466 ▼ 512 | #38 of 51 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +27.5pp | #205 of 3,998 | #1 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 243 | #4,484 of 4,938 | #50 of 58 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #859 of 4,622 | #6 of 53 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.7% | #3,503 of 4,628 | #25 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.4% | #1,440 of 4,789 | #24 of 56 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.4% | #533 of 2,838 | #5 of 38 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
243
+15 (+7%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 518
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 12.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 243 | 18.6 | 13.1:1 | 86% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 290 | 22.8 | 12.7:1 | 84% (244) |
| 2022-23 | 273 | 19.8 | 13.8:1 | 83% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 228 | 19 | 12.0:1 | 85% (194) |
| 2017-18 | 344 | 23.8 | 14.4:1 | 92% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 340 | 20 | 17.0:1 | 73% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 471 | 28 | 16.8:1 | 87% (412) |
| 2000-01 | 412 | 29 | 14.2:1 | 77% (317) |
| 1990-91 | 518 | 34 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Menger Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (344 to 243); teachers down 22% (23.8 to 18.6).
About Menger Elementary School
The public elementary school Menger Elementary School is located in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas. The school counted 243 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. That is 53% below the average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
CORPUS CHRISTI ISD is the district for Menger Elementary School. It has 54 schools and 33,103 students.
Of every 100 students at Menger Elementary School, about 84 are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 13% White and 2% Black. Census figures show Nueces County is about 63% Hispanic. A diversity index of 28% means there is a 28% chance two randomly chosen students at Menger Elementary School are from different groups.
Its ratio of 13.1:1 is based on 18.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 86% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Nueces County average 67%.
Menger Elementary School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 69% of Texas public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Menger Elementary School is 6.5 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Texas schools.
The county, Nueces County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $66,897 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Nueces County has 124 public schools with about 59,619 students, including Menger Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Menger Elementary School is closest to Wynn Seale Metropolitan School of Design, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 38.2%; Menger Elementary School's is 43.3%, ranking 3rd of 6.
NCES assigns Menger Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 7% rise took enrollment from 228 in 2020-21 to 243 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.1:1.
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Nueces County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
352,955
Census ACS
Median income
$66,897
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
124
59,619 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CORPUS CHRISTI ISD
- Veterans Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,026 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 1,928 students
- Ray High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Roy Miller H S and Metro School of DesignHigh · 1,424 students
- Moody High SchoolHigh · 1,326 students
- King High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
Other schools in CORPUS CHRISTI
- Sst Corpus ChristiCombined · 2,343 students
- Veterans Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,026 students
- Flour Bluff High SchoolHigh · 1,940 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 1,928 students
- Ray High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Roy Miller H S and Metro School of DesignHigh · 1,424 students
Nearby schools
- Wynn Seale Metropolitan School of Design0.4 mi · 682
- Collegiate High School0.5 mi · 390
- Corpus Christi Montessori School0.6 mi · 139
- Allen Elementary School1.0 mi · 331
- Ray High School1.0 mi · 1,578
- Travis Elementary School1.2 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About Menger Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Menger Elementary School?
Menger Elementary School enrolls approximately 243 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Menger Elementary School serve?
Menger Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Menger Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Menger Elementary School is approximately 13.1:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Menger Elementary School?
Student demographics at Menger Elementary School are roughly 13% White, 84% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian.
What district is Menger Elementary School in?
Menger Elementary School is part of CORPUS CHRISTI ISD.
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