Coles H S and Educational Center

Size

Of the 9 high schools in Corpus Christi ISD, Coles H S and Educational Center is the smallest, with 0.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 441; Coles H S and Educational Center is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 12 with 44 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 1, against an average of 22 per grade. This year grade 12 has 193% more students than grade 8 (44 against 15). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 91.8% here and 82.2% across Corpus Christi ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.3% across Corpus Christi ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 16.73 full-time-equivalent teachers for 110 students, Coles H S and Educational Center has 6.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 110 students would have about 7.9 teachers, so Coles H S and Educational Center has 8.8 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Coles H S and Educational Center is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Roy Miller H S and Metro School of Design, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 16 other high schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.