MOODY H S

MOODY H S is a 9-12 campus of big scale in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, run under CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, serveing 1,326 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 67% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

MOODY H S is one of 54 schools operated by CORPUS CHRISTI ISD, a district that hosts 33,103 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MOODY H S reports that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% White, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Nueces County's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, MOODY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nueces County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,897 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nueces County runs 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), of which MOODY H S is one.

GARCIA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MOODY H S. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOODY H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.3%.

MOODY H S operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 1,614 students in 2018 compared to 1,326 in 2025.

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