Uplift Elevate Prep Ps

Size

Uplift Elevate Prep Ps is the 7th largest of Uplift Education's 19 elementary schools; its 650 students are 2.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 525 students, so Uplift Elevate Prep Ps is close to their typical size.

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 3 with 108 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 76, against an average of 93 per grade. This year grade 5 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (82 against 92). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 47.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across Uplift Education (64.8%). Black students are next, at 29.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.3% 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 Elevate Prep Ps has 35.66 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 650 students would have about 43.9 teachers, so Uplift Elevate Prep Ps has 8.2 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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Blue Haze Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in White Settlement ISD. There are 15 elementary schools within 5 miles and 56 within 10 miles.

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