CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY

CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in AUSTIN, Texas, part of CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY. Current enrollment sits at 408 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 524 students. CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY logs that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 6% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 39.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Travis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

HART EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY 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 CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY has edged up 6%, going from 385 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 16% to 6%.

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