Cardinal Elementary

Cardinal Elementary, a big elementary campus in Richmond, Virginia, part of Richmond City Public Schools, enrolls 821 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 65% larger than the state mean of about 499.

Richmond City Public Schools runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 20,962 students. Cardinal Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Cardinal Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 11% Black. By comparison, Richmond city as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Cardinal Elementary lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cardinal Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.0%; Cardinal Elementary posts 37.6%, -23.4 points below that line.

Around the school, Richmond city reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,587 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Richmond city's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students), Cardinal Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Broad Rock Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cardinal Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.

Cardinal Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cardinal Elementary's enrollment has climbed 28% since 2018, when it stood at 641 (now 821). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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