# BARBARA CARDWELL CAREER PREPARATORY CENTER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482442006275`
- **School name**: BARBARA CARDWELL CAREER PREPARATORY CENTER
- **Location**: IRVING, TX 75061
- **Address**: 101 E UNION BOWER RD
- **District**: IRVING ISD (LEAID `4824420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.82180, -96.94540
- **Phone**: (972)600-6140

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 247
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 82

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 37.5% proficient — 48 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 2.1% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 48 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 59.7% proficient — 367 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 17.7% proficient, 2.7% advanced — 367 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 82.5% proficient — 57 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 21.1% proficient, 1.8% advanced — 57 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 54.9% proficient — 71 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 16.9% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 71 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 45.9% proficient — 98 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 19.4% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 98 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 41.3% proficient — 63 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 1.6% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 63 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 49.7% proficient — 169 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 18.3% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 169 tested
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 81.9% (cohort of 232)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 88

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 88.8% (191 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.8% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 75.5% (207 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 3.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 78.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 7.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.2% — 6 students
- **English Learners**: 34.3% — 94 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,616,715
- **Federal share**: 16.7%
- **State share**: 37.6%
- **Local share**: 45.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,828,031

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,697
- **Poverty rate**: 16.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,152
- **Foreign-born residents**: 47.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.0 miles (DELFASCO FORGE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 98
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.10 miles (CROCKETT CONCRETE BATCH PLANT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF IRVING
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.23604 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PIERCE EARLY CHILDHOOD** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.74%)
- **IRVING H S** — 0.3 mi away, 0.91% (this school: 4.74%)
- **AUSTIN MIDDLE** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.74%)
- **LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE** — 0.5 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 4.74%)
- **KEYES EL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.74%)

### graduation rate
- **IRVING H S** — 0.3 mi away, 93% (this school: 84%)
- **NIMITZ H S** — 2.0 mi away, 96% (this school: 84%)
- **MACARTHUR H S** — 2.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 84%)
- **GRAND PRAIRIE H S** — 5.8 mi away, 91% (this school: 84%)
- **RANCHVIEW H S** — 6.7 mi away, 93% (this school: 84%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/barbara-cardwell-career-preparatory-center-irving/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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