Cunningham Elementary School

Size

Cunningham Elementary School is the 66th largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 562 students are 0.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 751 students, so Cunningham Elementary School 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 95 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 67, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 5 has 30% more students than kindergarten (87 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 82 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 74.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Black students are next, at 19.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Cunningham Elementary School has 32.49 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 562 students would have about 38 teachers, so Cunningham Elementary School has 5.5 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Rodriguez Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 56 elementary schools within 5 miles and 219 within 10 miles.

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