Ume Preparatory Academy - Duncanville

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Ume Preparatory Academy, Ume Preparatory Academy - Duncanville is the 2nd largest, with 15.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 446 students, so Ume Preparatory Academy - Duncanville 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 42 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 33, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 6 has 27% more students than kindergarten (42 against 33). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 46.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across Ume Preparatory Academy (52.5%). White students are next, at 29.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

45.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42% across Ume Preparatory Academy 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

Ume Preparatory Academy - Duncanville has 14.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 258 students would have about 17.4 teachers, so Ume Preparatory Academy - Duncanville has 3.4 fewer.

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 William Lee Hastings Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Duncanville ISD. There are 31 elementary schools within 5 miles and 156 within 10 miles.

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