Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in Grand Prairie ISD, Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 2.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 592; Dwight D Eisenhower 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 144 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 69, against an average of 89 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (76 against 69). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 144 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 77.2% here and 70% across Grand Prairie ISD. Black students are next, at 10.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.3% 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 40.01 full-time-equivalent teachers for 623 students, Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 623 students would have about 42.1 teachers, so Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School has 2.1 fewer.

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

Location

Dwight D Eisenhower 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 Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie, 1 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas. Within 10 miles there are 154 other elementary schools, 37 of them within 5 miles.

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