IRENE C CARDWELL EL

IRENE C CARDWELL EL operates as a mid-tier primary school in DEL RIO, Texas, one of the schools within SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD. Current enrollment sits at 452 students spanning grade pre-K.

SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 9,767 students; IRENE C CARDWELL EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, IRENE C CARDWELL EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The remainder comes out to 4% White. By comparison, Val Verde County as a whole is about 81% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, IRENE C CARDWELL EL records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IRENE C CARDWELL EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at IRENE C CARDWELL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Val Verde County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Val Verde County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,100 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. IRENE C CARDWELL EL is one of 20 public schools in Val Verde County (combined enrollment of about 10,448 students).

DEL RIO H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

IRENE C CARDWELL EL operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IRENE C CARDWELL EL has edged down 15%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 452 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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