Uplift Meridian Prep Ps

Size

Of the 19 elementary schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Meridian Prep Ps is the smallest, with 2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 466; Uplift Meridian 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 pre-K with 100 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 37, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 5 has 49% fewer students than kindergarten (37 against 72). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 100 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 62.5% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 33.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.5% 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 29.53 full-time-equivalent teachers for 461 students, Uplift Meridian Prep Ps has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 461 students would have about 31.1 teachers, so Uplift Meridian Prep Ps has 1.6 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 Meridian Prep Ps is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is McRae Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. Within 10 miles there are 168 other elementary schools, 50 of them within 5 miles.

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