Candlewood STEM Academy PK-1

Size

Candlewood STEM Academy PK-1 is the smallest of Judson ISD's 22 elementary schools; its 199 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 673 students, so Candlewood STEM Academy PK-1 is smaller than most of them.

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 1 with 78 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 58, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 1 has 24% more students than kindergarten (78 against 63). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 58 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 62.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Judson ISD (59.7%). Black students are next, at 25.6%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.8% across Judson ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

Candlewood STEM Academy PK-1 has 11.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 199 students would have about 13.4 teachers, so Candlewood STEM Academy PK-1 has 1.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. Candlewood Elementary School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 32 elementary schools within 5 miles and 121 within 10 miles.

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