Child Development Center

Size

Child Development Center is the only school in Mount Pleasant ISD. Its 416 students are 8.1% of the district's 5,153. The 8 nearest schools are a median 52.1 miles away and have a median of 215 students, so Child Development 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

Child Development Center serves a single grade, pre-K, with 416 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 77.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Mount Pleasant ISD (70.6%). Black students are next, at 16.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79% across Mount Pleasant 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

Child Development Center has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 17, a school with 416 students would have about 24.5 teachers, so Child Development 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 town, remote, which means it is in a town more than 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other school is Gilmer Early Childhood Center, 29.6 miles away in Gilmer ISD. No other school is within 10 miles.

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