THURGOOD MARSHALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

THURGOOD MARSHALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of the average-sized primary schools in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, operated by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, with 582 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

GRAND PRAIRIE ISD comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 27,240 students; THURGOOD MARSHALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is among them.

Looking at the student body, THURGOOD MARSHALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY shows that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 19% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, THURGOOD MARSHALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.8%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household income runs about $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. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which THURGOOD MARSHALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.

JOHN A DUBISKI CAREER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, THURGOOD MARSHALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 582 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 61% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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