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CARROLL H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CARROLL H S
CARROLL H S operates as a large senior high in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, one of the schools within CORPUS CHRISTI ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,928 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 142% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
CORPUS CHRISTI ISD runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 33,103 students. CARROLL H S is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, CARROLL H S logs that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 12% White, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.
Looking at school resources, CARROLL H S shows 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARROLL H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.1%; this one delivers 42.6%.
In the area at large, Nueces County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,897 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Nueces County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), CARROLL H S is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is GALVAN EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CARROLL H S comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Five-year trend. CARROLL H S's enrollment has rose 21% since 2018, when it stood at 1,591 (now 1,928).
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