Uplift Wisdom Prep Ps

Size

Of the 19 elementary schools in Uplift Education, Uplift Wisdom Prep Ps is the 12th largest, with 2.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 334; Uplift Wisdom 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 116 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 82, against an average of 99 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% more students than kindergarten (116 against 95). 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: 61% here and 64.8% across Uplift Education. Black students are next, at 36.9%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.4% 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 26.09 full-time-equivalent teachers for 593 students, Uplift Wisdom Prep Ps has 22.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 593 students would have about 40.1 teachers, so Uplift Wisdom Prep Ps has 14 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 Wisdom Prep Ps is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is T G Terry Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Dallas ISD. Within 10 miles there are 131 other elementary schools, 46 of them within 5 miles.

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