Lorenzo De Zavala Environmental Science Academy

Size

Lorenzo De Zavala Environmental Science Academy is the 2nd largest of Grand Prairie ISD's 22 elementary schools; its 716 students are 2.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 525 students, so Lorenzo De Zavala Environmental Science 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 5 with 142 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 42, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 5 has 42% more students than kindergarten (142 against 100). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 42 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 77.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Grand Prairie ISD (70%). Black students are next, at 13.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.1% of students qualify 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

Lorenzo De Zavala Environmental Science Academy has 47.68 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 716 students would have about 48.4 teachers, so Lorenzo De Zavala Environmental Science Academy has about as many as that.

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

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 elementary school is Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand Prairie, 0.8 miles away in Trinity Basin Preparatory. There are 46 elementary schools within 5 miles and 164 within 10 miles.

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