STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY

STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, operated by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, with 605 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY is one of 40 schools operated by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, a district that educates 27,240 students overall.

On the student-mix side, STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY lists that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 9% Black, 6% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.2%; this one delivers 44.4%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 21%: 502 students in 2018 compared to 605 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 76% to 82%.

On the community side, members of the STEPHEN F AUSTIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.