Delmas F Morton Elementary School

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in Grand Prairie ISD, Delmas F Morton Elementary School is the 13th largest, with 2.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 612; Delmas F Morton Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 159 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 53, against an average of 83 per grade. This year grade 5 has 54% more students than kindergarten (91 against 59). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 159 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 82% here and 70% across Grand Prairie ISD. Black students are next, at 11.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.1% of its students are eligible 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

With 40.03 full-time-equivalent teachers for 578 students, Delmas F Morton Elementary School has 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 578 students would have about 39.1 teachers, so Delmas F Morton Elementary School 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

Delmas F Morton Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Uplift Grand Prep Ps, 0.5 miles away in Uplift Education. Within 10 miles there are 166 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

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