SANDERS EL

SANDERS EL operates as a compact K-5 school in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, run under CORPUS CHRISTI ISD. Current enrollment sits at 279 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

CORPUS CHRISTI ISD runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 33,103 students. SANDERS EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SANDERS EL reports that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 8% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Nueces County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SANDERS EL has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SANDERS EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nueces County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SANDERS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.0%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Nueces County shows median household earnings sit near $66,897, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. SANDERS EL is one of 124 public schools in Nueces County (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students).

The closest other public school is BROWNE MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SANDERS EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SANDERS EL has shrank 32%, going from 408 students in 2018 to 279 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 7% to 3% over that span.

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