Roy Cisneros Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Edgewood ISD, Roy Cisneros Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 2.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.8 miles away and have a median of 381 students, so Roy Cisneros Elementary School 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 3 with 31 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 15, against an average of 22 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% more students than kindergarten (19 against 17). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 99% of enrollment, about the same share as across Edgewood ISD (96.4%).

92.8% 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

Roy Cisneros Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 195 students would have about 13.2 teachers, so Roy Cisneros Elementary School has 9.8 more.

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 KIPP Un Mundo Primary School, 0.5 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. There are 70 elementary schools within 5 miles and 195 within 10 miles.

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