Clifton Early Childhood

Size

Of the 3 schools in Irving ISD, Clifton Early Childhood is the largest, with 1.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 9.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 248; Clifton Early Childhood 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

Clifton Early Childhood serves a single grade, pre-K, with 420 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 49.8% here and 76.6% across Irving ISD. Black students are next, at 26.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 85.2% across Irving 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

With 20.97 full-time-equivalent teachers for 420 students, Clifton Early Childhood has 20 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 17, a school with 420 students would have about 24.7 teachers, so Clifton Early Childhood has 3.7 fewer.

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

Location

Clifton Early Childhood is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other school is Pierce Early Childhood, 3.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 4 other schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

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