Uplift Luna Prep Ps

Size

Of the 19 elementary schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Luna Prep Ps is the 4th largest, with 3.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 572; Uplift Luna 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 5 with 112 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 76, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (112 against 98). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 76 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 80.1% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 14.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.2% 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 37.68 full-time-equivalent teachers for 719 students, Uplift Luna Prep Ps has 19.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 719 students would have about 48.6 teachers, so Uplift Luna Prep Ps has 10.9 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 Luna Prep Ps is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite, 0.9 miles away in Trinity Basin Preparatory. Within 10 miles there are 192 other elementary schools, 66 of them within 5 miles.

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