Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute

Size

Of the 8 high schools in Grand Prairie ISD, Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute is the 6th largest, with 1.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 656; Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute is smaller 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 grade 8 with 118 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 27, against an average of 60 per grade. This year grade 12 has 67% fewer students than grade 6 (32 against 97). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 63.2% here and 70% across Grand Prairie ISD. Black students are next, at 19.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

62.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.3% across Grand Prairie ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 22.78 full-time-equivalent teachers for 419 students, Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute has 18.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 419 students would have about 29.9 teachers, so Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute has 7.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. Young Women's Leadership Academy High School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 48 other high schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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