Cardenas Center

Size

Of the 3 schools in Edgewood ISD, Cardenas Center is the largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest schools are a median 4.5 miles away and have a median of 74 students, so Cardenas Center is larger 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

Cardenas Center serves a single grade, pre-K, with 264 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 95.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Edgewood ISD (96.4%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood ISD and a median of 85.7% for Texas 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

Cardenas Center has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 17, a school with 264 students would have about 15.5 teachers, so Cardenas Center has 1.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (17).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other school is Stafford Center, 1.6 miles away in the same district. There are 6 schools within 5 miles and 9 within 10 miles.

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