Uplift Gradus Prep Ps

Size

Of the 19 elementary schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Gradus Prep Ps is the 11th largest, with 2.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 415; Uplift Gradus 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 2 with 104 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 64, against an average of 85 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% fewer students than kindergarten (81 against 98). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 64 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 62.8% here and 23.2% across Uplift Education. Hispanic students are next, at 30.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.6% 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 32.46 full-time-equivalent teachers for 597 students, Uplift Gradus Prep Ps has 18.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 597 students would have about 40.3 teachers, so Uplift Gradus 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

Uplift Gradus Prep Ps is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Golden Rule Desoto, 0.4 miles away in Golden Rule Charter School. Within 10 miles there are 114 other elementary schools, 37 of them within 5 miles.

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