David Daniels El Academy of Science & Math

Size

David Daniels El Academy of Science & Math is the 20th largest of Grand Prairie ISD's 22 elementary schools; its 445 students are 1.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 561 students, so David Daniels El Academy of Science & Math is smaller than most of them.

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 104 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 40, against an average of 64 per grade. This year grade 5 has 57% more students than kindergarten (63 against 40). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 104 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 63.8% of enrollment, a lower share than across Grand Prairie ISD (70%). Black students are next, at 31.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.3% across Grand Prairie ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

David Daniels El Academy of Science & Math has 29.96 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 445 students would have about 30.1 teachers, so David Daniels El Academy of Science & Math has about as many as that.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Patrick Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in Arlington ISD. There are 44 elementary schools within 5 miles and 165 within 10 miles.

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