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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL
Set in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, operated by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD. It works with 555 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 40 schools in GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (27,240 students total), GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 27.7%, a residual of -9.8 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Trend over the last 7 years. GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL's enrollment has climbed 13% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 555). Hispanic enrollment moved from 65% to 74% across the same window.
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