Uplift Grand Prep Ps

Size

Uplift Grand Prep Ps is the 3rd largest of Uplift Education's 19 elementary schools; its 727 students are 3.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 592; Uplift Grand 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 4 with 113 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 85, against an average of 104 per grade. This year grade 5 has 11% more students than kindergarten (113 against 102). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 85 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 82.1% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 14.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.8% 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 39.85 full-time-equivalent teachers for 727 students, Uplift Grand Prep Ps has 18.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 727 students would have about 49.1 teachers, so Uplift Grand Prep Ps has 9.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Uplift Grand 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 Delmas F Morton Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Grand Prairie ISD. Within 10 miles there are 167 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

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