Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy

Size

Of the 8 high schools in Grand Prairie ISD, Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy is the 4th largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 427 students, so Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy is larger 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 grade 7 with 182 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 86, against an average of 125 per grade. This year grade 12 has 39% fewer students than grade 6 (89 against 146). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 59% of enrollment, a lower share than across Grand Prairie ISD (70%). White students are next, at 19.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

47.7% of students qualify 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

Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy has 50.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 877 students would have about 62.6 teachers, so Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy has 11.7 fewer.

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

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 high school is Grand Prairie High School, 0.1 miles away in the same district. There are 10 high schools within 5 miles and 49 within 10 miles.

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