Cardinal Community Academy Charter School

Located at 3101 WCR 65, in KEENESBURG, Colorado, Cardinal Community Academy Charter School is a modestly sized K-5 school that hosts 182 students (grades K through 8), part of Weld County School District RE-3J. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Cardinal Community Academy Charter School sits 52% smaller than that benchmark.

Weld County School District RE-3J runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,666 students. Cardinal Community Academy Charter School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Cardinal Community Academy Charter School records that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Weld County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Weld County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,097 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Cardinal Community Academy Charter School is one of 116 public schools in Weld County (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students).

Weld Central Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Cardinal Community Academy Charter School.

The campus sits in a small-town setting. As a public charter, Cardinal Community Academy Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cardinal Community Academy Charter School has declined 3%, going from 187 students in 2018 to 182 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 7% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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