Uplift Luna Prep Middle School

Size

Of the 13 middle schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Luna Prep Middle School is the largest, with 2.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 749; Uplift Luna 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 209 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 178, against an average of 197 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% fewer students than grade 6 (178 against 209). 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: 81.9% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 12.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.3% 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 30.83 full-time-equivalent teachers for 591 students, Uplift Luna Prep Middle School has 19.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 591 students would have about 41 teachers, so Uplift Luna Prep Middle School has 10.2 fewer.

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

Location

Uplift Luna Prep Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Harold Wendell Language Sr. Middle School, 0.6 miles away in Dallas ISD. Within 10 miles there are 54 other middle schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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