Enrollment
142
Elementary
DISTRICT 548 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRAND PRAIRIE ISD·NCES 482142013172
School for the Highly Gifted
2205 S E 4TH ST, GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 75052 · (972) 343-7864 · Dallas County
GRADES 01–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL142 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of Texas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
48 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 8 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 9 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 16 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 18 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 20 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 35 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 22 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 14 | 10% |
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within GRAND PRAIRIE ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
98.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +17.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
99.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +5.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 99 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 86.0% | 12.0% | 2.0% | 0.0% |
| Mathematics | 81.0% | 18.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 98.0% | 99.0% |
| 2024-25 | 100.0% | 99.0% |
| 2023-24 | 99.0% | 96.0% |
| 2022-23 | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 2021-22 | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 2020-21 | 81.0% | 94.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
94.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+35.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 35 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like School for the Highly Gifted
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| School for the Highly Gifted this school | 142 | 33.8% | 94.3% |
| Pearson Early Childhood PLANO | 220 | 30.0% | N/A |
| Beaty Early Childhood School PLANO | 281 | 34.5% | N/A |
| Lewisville School of Science and Technology Lower LEWISVILLE | 207 | 48.8% | 38.8% |
| Melissa Ridge Education Center MELISSA | 291 | 19.9% | N/A |
| Isaacs Early Childhood School PLANO | 259 | 50.6% | N/A |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where School for the Highly Gifted ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 94.3% | #3 of 4,401 | #1 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 99.0% | #1 of 4,466 no change | #1 of 429 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 98.0% | #2 of 4,466 ▼ 1 | #1 of 429 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #1,027 of 3,998 | #140 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 142 | #4,768 of 4,938 | #439 of 448 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.8% | #4,131 of 4,789 | #403 of 437 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
142
-12 (-8%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 10.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 142 | 15.4 | 9.3:1 | 34% (48) |
| 2023-24 | 125 | 15.9 | 7.9:1 | 30% (37) |
| 2022-23 | 128 | 14.7 | 8.7:1 | 29% (37) |
| 2020-21 | 154 | 15 | 10.3:1 | 34% (52) |
| 2017-18 | 127 | 12.2 | 10.4:1 | 32% (41) |
| 2015-16 | 87 | 8 | 10.9:1 | 32% (28) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for School for the Highly Gifted.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (127 to 142); teachers up 26% (12.2 to 15.4).
About School for the Highly Gifted
Located in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, School for the Highly Gifted is a very small elementary school. Total enrollment is 142 students, and the grades served are 1 through 8. Elementary schools in Texas have about 519 students on average; enrollment here is 73% lower.
GRAND PRAIRIE ISD is the local district for School for the Highly Gifted. It runs 40 schools with 27,240 students.
Asian students make up 30% of enrollment at School for the Highly Gifted, the largest share of any group. Next come 24% Black, 21% White, 17% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 7% Asian among all Dallas County residents. A diversity index of 77% means there is a 77% chance two randomly chosen students at School for the Highly Gifted are from different groups.
Its ratio of 9.3:1 is based on 15.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1, 5.8 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 34%. That rate is below the 77% average among public schools in Dallas County.
Among Texas public elementary schools, School for the Highly Gifted outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 94.3%, is 35.1 points above the 59.3% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of Texas schools.
In Dallas County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $76,547, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 771 public schools in the county, enrolling about 459,645, School for the Highly Gifted among them.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Young Women's Leadership Academy High School, is the closest to School for the Highly Gifted. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of School for the Highly Gifted. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, School for the Highly Gifted ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. School for the Highly Gifted is run as a public charter school.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 142, down from 154 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 9.3:1, from 10.3:1.
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Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GRAND PRAIRIE ISD
- South Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 3,239 students
- Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 2,817 students
- John A Dubiski Career High SchoolHigh · 1,574 students
- Bill Arnold Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- Ronald W Reagan Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
- Grand Prairie Fine Arts AcademyHigh · 877 students
Other schools in GRAND PRAIRIE
- South Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 3,239 students
- Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 2,817 students
- John A Dubiski Career High SchoolHigh · 1,574 students
- Bill Arnold Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- Advantage AcademyCombined · 972 students
- Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary SchoolElementary · 936 students
Nearby schools
- Young Women's Leadership Academy High School0.0 mi · 25
- Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute0.0 mi · 419
- Ymla at John F Kennedy Middle School0.0 mi · 382
- Global Leadership Academy at Barbara Bush Elementary School0.7 mi · 555
- Ellen Ochoa STEM Academy at Ben Miliam Elementary School0.8 mi · 696
- Bonham Ees0.9 mi · 352
Frequently asked questions
About School for the Highly GiftedHow many students attend School for the Highly Gifted?
School for the Highly Gifted enrolls approximately 142 students in grades 01-08.
What age range does School for the Highly Gifted serve?
School for the Highly Gifted serves students from grade 01 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at School for the Highly Gifted?
Approximately 9.3:1 students per teacher at School for the Highly Gifted.
How diverse is School for the Highly Gifted?
School for the Highly Gifted reports a student body of 21% White, 17% Hispanic, 24% Black, 30% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees School for the Highly Gifted?
School for the Highly Gifted is overseen by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD in Dallas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.