Uplift Pinnacle Prep Ps

Size

Uplift Pinnacle Prep Ps is the 17th largest of Uplift Education's 19 elementary schools; its 486 students are 2.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 405; Uplift Pinnacle 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 135 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 42, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (58 against 72). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 135 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 72.6% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 22.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.9% 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 29.39 full-time-equivalent teachers for 486 students, Uplift Pinnacle Prep Ps has 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 486 students would have about 32.8 teachers, so Uplift Pinnacle Prep Ps has 3.4 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 Pinnacle Prep Ps is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Academy of Dallas (in Academy of Dallas) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 171 other elementary schools, 64 of them within 5 miles.

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