Uplift North Hills Prep High School

Size

Uplift North Hills Prep High School is the largest of Uplift Education's 13 high schools; its 522 students are 2.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.3 miles away and have a median of 595 students, so Uplift North Hills Prep High School 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 9 with 148 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 111, against an average of 131 per grade. This year grade 12 has 25% fewer students than grade 9 (111 against 148). 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

Asian students are the largest group, at 66.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Uplift Education (6.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 16.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

20.1% of students qualify 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

Uplift North Hills Prep High School has 36.43 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 522 students would have about 37.3 teachers, so Uplift North Hills Prep High School has about as many as that.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Ranchview High School, 1.8 miles away in Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. There are 12 high schools within 5 miles and 38 within 10 miles.

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