Uplift Grand Prep Middle School

Size

Uplift Grand Prep Middle School is the 9th largest of Uplift Education's 13 middle schools; its 446 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4.3 miles away and have a median of 564 students, so Uplift Grand 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 7 with 152 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 142, against an average of 149 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 142 in grade 6 and 152 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 85.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Uplift Education (64.8%). Black students are next, at 10.3%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.5% of students qualify 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

Uplift Grand Prep Middle School has 25.61 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 446 students would have about 31 teachers, so Uplift Grand Prep Middle School has 5.4 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is Digital Arts & Technology Academy at Adams Middle School, 1.1 miles away in Grand Prairie ISD. There are 8 middle schools within 5 miles and 45 within 10 miles.

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