Uplift Williams Prep Ps

Size

Of the 19 elementary schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Williams Prep Ps is the 13th largest, with 2.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 454; Uplift Williams 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 103 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 42, against an average of 83 per grade. This year grade 5 has 54% more students than kindergarten (103 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 42 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 89.4% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.1% 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 32.25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 584 students, Uplift Williams Prep Ps has 18.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 584 students would have about 39.5 teachers, so Uplift Williams Prep Ps has 7.2 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 Williams Prep Ps is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Obadiah Knight Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in Dallas ISD. Within 10 miles there are 174 other elementary schools, 35 of them within 5 miles.

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