Gardendale Pre-K 4 Sa Early Learning

Size

Gardendale Pre-K 4 Sa Early Learning is the 8th largest of Edgewood ISD's 10 elementary schools; its 246 students are 3.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 394 students, so Gardendale Pre-K 4 Sa Early Learning is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 71 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 56, against an average of 62 per grade. This year grade 2 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (56 against 62). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 57 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 94.7% of enrollment, about the same share as across Edgewood ISD (96.4%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood 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

Gardendale Pre-K 4 Sa Early Learning has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 246 students would have about 16.6 teachers, so Gardendale Pre-K 4 Sa Early Learning has about as many as that.

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 Stafford El Visual and Performing Arts, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 67 elementary schools within 5 miles and 183 within 10 miles.

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