Uplift Mighty Prep High School

Size

Of the 13 high schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Mighty Prep High School is the 8th largest, with 1.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 503; Uplift Mighty Prep High 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 9 with 127 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 77, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 12 has 29% fewer students than grade 9 (90 against 127). 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: 78.6% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 17.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.6% across Uplift Education and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 27.04 full-time-equivalent teachers for 402 students, Uplift Mighty Prep High School has 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 402 students would have about 28.7 teachers, so Uplift Mighty Prep High School has 1.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Uplift Mighty Prep High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Paint Rock Panther Academy, 0.1 miles away in Paint Rock ISD. Within 10 miles there are 50 other high schools, 15 of them within 5 miles.

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