Bridgeway Preparatory Academy

Size

Bridgeway Preparatory Academy is the only school in Bridgeway Preparatory Academy, so its 108 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1 miles away and have a median of 606 students, so Bridgeway Preparatory Academy is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 21 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 5, against an average of 11 per grade. This year grade 8 has 44% fewer students than kindergarten (5 against 9). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 21 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 48.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (12.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 36.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

48.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Bridgeway Preparatory Academy has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 108 students would have about 7.3 teachers, so Bridgeway Preparatory Academy has 1.3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is McWhorter Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. There are 42 elementary schools within 5 miles and 159 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.