School for the Highly Gifted

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in Grand Prairie ISD, School for the Highly Gifted is the smallest, with 0.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1 miles away and have a median of 525 students, so School for the Highly Gifted 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 6 with 35 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 8, against an average of 18 per grade. This year grade 8 has 75% more students than grade 1 (14 against 8). 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

Asian students are the largest group, at 30.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Grand Prairie ISD (3.3%). Black students are next, at 23.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

33.8% 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

School for the Highly Gifted has 15.35 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 142 students would have about 9.6 teachers, so School for the Highly Gifted has 5.8 more.

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 Global Leadership Academy at Barbara Bush Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. There are 45 elementary schools within 5 miles and 170 within 10 miles.

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