East Grand Preparatory Academy

Size

East Grand Preparatory Academy is the largest of Cityscape Schools' 2 elementary schools; its 816 students are 64.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 578; East Grand Preparatory Academy is larger 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 170 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 54, against an average of 82 per grade. This year grade 8 has 18% fewer students than kindergarten (54 against 66). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 170 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 83.1% here and 80.8% across Cityscape Schools. Black students are next, at 14.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.9% of its students are eligible 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

With 42.34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 816 students, East Grand Preparatory Academy has 19.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 816 students would have about 55.1 teachers, so East Grand Preparatory Academy has 12.8 fewer.

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

Location

East Grand Preparatory Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Mount Auburn STEAM Academy, 0.2 miles away in Dallas ISD. Within 10 miles there are 218 other elementary schools, 52 of them within 5 miles.

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