LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS

LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS, a sprawling combined-grade school in MESQUITE, Texas, one of the schools within LEGACY PREPARATORY, instructs 991 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 104% larger than the state mean of about 485.

LEGACY PREPARATORY comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,138 students; LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS is among them.

Looking at the student body, LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder reads as 12% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS is one campus in the mix.

GALLOWAY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.0%.

LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS operates from a bedroom-community location. LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEGACY PREP CHARTER ACADEMY MESQUITE WEST CAMPUS has declined 6%, going from 1,052 students in 2018 to 991 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 18% to 12% over that span.

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