Uplift Ascend Prep Ps

Size

Uplift Ascend Prep Ps is the 2nd largest of Uplift Education's 19 elementary schools; its 864 students are 3.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 383; Uplift Ascend Prep Ps 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 grade 5 with 139 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 100, against an average of 123 per grade. This year grade 5 has 11% more students than kindergarten (139 against 125). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 100 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 56.9% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 34.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.6% across Uplift Education 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

With 47.51 full-time-equivalent teachers for 864 students, Uplift Ascend Prep Ps has 18.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 864 students would have about 58.4 teachers, so Uplift Ascend Prep Ps has 10.9 fewer.

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

Location

Uplift Ascend Prep Ps is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Souder Elementary School, 0.2 miles away in Everman ISD. Within 10 miles there are 136 other elementary schools, 29 of them within 5 miles.

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