MENGER EL

MENGER EL is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, one of the schools within CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, hosting 243 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, which oversees 54 schools and 33,103 students, MENGER EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MENGER EL shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 13% White, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MENGER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nueces County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, MENGER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.1%; this one delivers 42.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Nueces County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,897, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 MENGER EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WYNN SEALE METROPOLITAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MENGER EL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MENGER EL has declined 29%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 243 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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