Cunningham Elementary School

Size

Cunningham Elementary School is the 60th largest of Austin ISD's 78 elementary schools; its 346 students are 0.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 341; Cunningham Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 2 with 57 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 42, against an average of 49 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% more students than kindergarten (52 against 44). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 50 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 59% here and 54.4% across Austin ISD. White students are next, at 32.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

53.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin 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

With 34.56 full-time-equivalent teachers for 346 students, Cunningham Elementary School has 10 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 346 students would have about 23.4 teachers, so Cunningham Elementary School has 11.2 more.

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

Location

Cunningham Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Wayside Eden Park Academy, 0.2 miles away in Wayside Schools. Within 10 miles there are 83 other elementary schools, 37 of them within 5 miles.

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