Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite

Size

Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite is the 3rd largest of Trinity Basin Preparatory's 7 elementary schools; its 800 students are 11.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 561; Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite 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 pre-K with 105 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 52, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 8 has 39% fewer students than kindergarten (52 against 85). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 105 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 64.5% here and 57.8% across Trinity Basin Preparatory. Black students are next, at 18.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.6% 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 44.52 full-time-equivalent teachers for 800 students, Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite has 18 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 800 students would have about 54.1 teachers, so Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite has 9.6 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 - Mesquite 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 Range Elementary School, 0.2 miles away in Mesquite ISD. Within 10 miles there are 183 other elementary schools, 65 of them within 5 miles.

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