Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand Prairie

Size

Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand Prairie is the 6th largest of Trinity Basin Preparatory's 7 elementary schools; its 433 students are 6.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 569; Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand Prairie 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 pre-K with 82 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 30, against an average of 48 per grade. This year grade 7 has 12% fewer students than kindergarten (52 against 59). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 82 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 33.5% here and 57.8% across Trinity Basin Preparatory. Black students are next, at 30%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75% across Trinity Basin Preparatory and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 26.27 full-time-equivalent teachers for 433 students, Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand Prairie has 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 433 students would have about 29.3 teachers, so Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand Prairie has 3 fewer.

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

Location

Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand Prairie 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 Thurgood Marshall Leadership Academy, 0.3 miles away in Grand Prairie ISD. Within 10 miles there are 156 other elementary schools, 48 of them within 5 miles.

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