Uplift Elevate Prep Middle School

Size

Of the 13 middle schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Elevate Prep Middle School is the smallest, with 1.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 5.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 788; Uplift Elevate Prep Middle School 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 95 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 78, against an average of 89 per grade. This year grade 8 has 18% fewer students than grade 6 (78 against 95). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 50.9% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 28.5%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

76% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.6% across Uplift Education and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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 18.79 full-time-equivalent teachers for 267 students, Uplift Elevate Prep Middle School has 14.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 267 students would have about 18.5 teachers, so Uplift Elevate Prep Middle School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

Uplift Elevate Prep Middle School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Leonard Middle School, 2.9 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. Within 10 miles there are 13 other middle schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

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