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What's something TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,873
Elementary
DISTRICT 923 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY·NCES 480009208163
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas
808 N EWING AVE, DALLAS, TX 75203 · (214) 942-8846 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,873 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 33% of Texas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
16.5:1
114 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
1,580 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 213 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 184 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 164 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 192 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 195 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 186 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 158 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 182 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 234 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 165 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (184) is 12% larger than its 8th grade class (165).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
47.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +22.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
31.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +5.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 22 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 | 22.0% | 25.0% | 27.0% | 26.0% |
| Mathematics | 9.0% | 22.0% | 30.0% | 39.0% |
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 | 47.0% | 31.0% |
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 29.0% |
| 2022-23 | 40.0% | 36.0% |
| 2021-22 | 43.0% | 31.0% |
| 2020-21 | 25.0% | 26.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 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 Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas's state test result (36.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas this school | 1,873 | 84.4% | 36.8% |
| Trinity Basin Preparatory - Fort Worth FORT WORTH | 2,020 | 83.5% | 36.4% |
| Coach Wally Hartley PK-8 EL PASO | 1,256 | 76.4% | 47.3% |
| Murry Fly Elementary School ODESSA | 1,091 | 86.2% | 33.9% |
| Northside Elementary School CLEVELAND | 1,073 | 88.8% | 20.1% |
| Piney Point Elementary School HOUSTON | 1,286 | 98.0% | 30.6% |
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 Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #2,969 of 4,401 | #232 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #3,794 of 4,466 ▼ 691 | #359 of 429 ▼ 75 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,817 of 4,466 ▲ 249 | #209 of 429 ▲ 40 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #2,661 of 3,998 | #228 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,873 | #3 of 4,938 | #1 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #3,611 of 4,622 | #344 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.8% | #3,235 of 4,628 | #287 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.4% | #1,609 of 4,789 | #246 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -40.6% | #153 of 2,838 | #23 of 274 |
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
1,873
-422 (-18%) vs 2020
+206% since 2000-01, when it was 613
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 1,873 | 113.5 | 16.5:1 | 84% (1,580) |
| 2023-24 | 2,017 | 151.5 | 13.3:1 | 100% (2,007) |
| 2022-23 | 2,089 | 150.8 | 13.8:1 | 92% (1,928) |
| 2020-21 | 2,295 | 149 | 15.4:1 | 90% (2,071) |
| 2017-18 | 3,152 | 177.5 | 17.8:1 | 79% (2,495) |
| 2015-16 | 2,353 | 136 | 17.3:1 | 91% (2,148) |
| 2010-11 | 632 | 40 | 15.8:1 | 94% (594) |
| 2000-01 | 613 | 37 | 16.6:1 | 92% (561) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas.
Since 2017-18: students down 41% (3,152 to 1,873); teachers down 36% (177.5 to 113.5).
About Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in DALLAS, Texas. Federal data show 1,873 students enrolled in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average enrollment is about 519.
TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY has a total of 8 schools and 7,007 students, Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas among them.
The student body at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas is 79% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 10% Black, 7% White, and 2% Native American. Among all residents of Dallas County, the Hispanic share is about 41%. A diversity index of 36% means there is a 36% chance two randomly chosen students at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas are from different groups.
There are about 16.5 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas, which has 113.5. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas is about 84%.
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 33% of Texas public elementary schools.
In Texas, Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 36.8% actual against a predicted 37.7%.
In Dallas County, home to about 2,621,179 people, median household income comes to about $76,547, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Dallas County's 771 public schools enroll about 459,645 students and include Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, James Bowie Elementary School, is the closest to Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas. Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 81.2% proficiency; Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas posts 36.8%.
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas is a public charter school.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 422 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 16.5 students per teacher, compared with 15.4 in 2020-21.
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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 TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - Fort WorthElementary · 2,020 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - MesquiteElementary · 800 students
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- Trinity Basin Preparatory - SouthElementary · 534 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - WestElementary · 441 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand PrairieElementary · 433 students
Other schools in DALLAS
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 3,837 students
- Lake Highlands High SchoolHigh · 2,972 students
- Oak Cliff Faith Family AcademyCombined · 2,670 students
- Bryan Adams H S Leadership AcademyHigh · 2,208 students
- W T White High SchoolHigh · 2,204 students
- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 2,164 students
Nearby schools
- James Bowie Elementary School0.4 mi · 317
- Marvin E Robinson School of Business and Mgmt0.5 mi · 476
- School of Health Professions0.5 mi · 497
- School of Science and Engineering0.5 mi · 505
- School for the Talented and Gifted0.5 mi · 555
- Rosie Sorrells Education and Social Services High School0.5 mi · 168
Frequently asked questions
About Trinity Basin Preparatory - DallasWhat is the total enrollment at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas?
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas enrolls approximately 1,873 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas serve?
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas?
At Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas, the student body is approximately 7% White, 79% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas public or private?
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Dallas is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.