Buckner Preparatory

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Cityscape Schools, Buckner Preparatory is the smallest, with 35.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1 miles away and have a median of 467 students, so Buckner Preparatory is close to their typical size.

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 102 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 12, against an average of 44 per grade. This year grade 8 has 79% fewer students than kindergarten (12 against 58). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 102 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 76.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Cityscape Schools (80.8%). Black students are next, at 19%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 97% across Cityscape Schools 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Buckner Preparatory has 23.88 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 443 students would have about 29.9 teachers, so Buckner Preparatory has 6 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 Adelfa Botello Callejo Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Dallas ISD. There are 64 elementary schools within 5 miles and 171 within 10 miles.

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