OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL

As a reasonably sized primary school in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL works with 541 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under CORPUS CHRISTI ISD.

Across the 54 schools in CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (33,103 students total), OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Beyond that, the school lists 9% Black, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 96% of students at OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Nueces County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Nueces County put median household earnings sit near $66,897, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL is one of 124 public schools in Nueces County (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students).

The closest other public school is DRISCOLL MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. OAK PARK SPECIAL EMPHASIS SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 541). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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