Uplift Atlas Prep Ps

Size

Uplift Atlas Prep Ps is the 9th largest of Uplift Education's 19 elementary schools; its 643 students are 2.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 384 students, so Uplift Atlas 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 4 with 121 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 91, against an average of 107 per grade. This year grade 5 has 24% more students than kindergarten (113 against 91). 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 77.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Uplift Education (64.8%). Black students are next, at 15.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.9% of students qualify 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

Uplift Atlas Prep Ps has 35.59 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 643 students would have about 43.4 teachers, so Uplift Atlas Prep Ps has 7.8 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Cesar Chavez Learning Center, 0.3 miles away in Dallas ISD. There are 53 elementary schools within 5 miles and 213 within 10 miles.

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