Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary School

Size

Of the 18 elementary schools in International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas), Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 3.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 531; Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary School 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 grade 3 with 161 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 22, against an average of 134 per grade. This year grade 5 has 20% more students than kindergarten (153 against 127). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 22 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 53.8% here and 59.1% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas). Black students are next, at 32.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

80.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.7% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) 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 52.16 full-time-equivalent teachers for 936 students, Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary School has 17.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 936 students would have about 63.2 teachers, so Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary School has 11 fewer.

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

Location

Iltexas Grand Prairie 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 Farrell Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Arlington ISD. Within 10 miles there are 148 other elementary schools, 58 of them within 5 miles.

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