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MIRELES EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MIRELES EL
Located at 7658 CIMARRON BLVD, in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, MIRELES EL is an average-sized elementary school that teaches 621 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of CORPUS CHRISTI ISD.
CORPUS CHRISTI ISD comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 33,103 students; MIRELES EL is among them.
Demographically, MIRELES EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school lists 19% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.
On the resource side, MIRELES EL shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Nueces County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MIRELES EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.0%; this one delivers 52.8%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nueces County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,897 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. MIRELES EL is one of 124 public schools in Nueces County (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students).
VETERANS MEMORIAL H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MIRELES EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.8%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Five-year trend. MIRELES EL's enrollment has fell 5% since 2018, when it stood at 656 (now 621). The White share of enrollment edged down from 29% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.
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