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Enrollment
800
Elementary
DISTRICT 923 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY·NCES 480009214059
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite
2901 E MEADOWS BLVD, MESQUITE, TX 75150 · (214) 946-9100 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL800 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
605 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 | 105 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 52 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 63% larger than its 8th grade class (52).
Student demographics
54%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
44.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +12.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
35.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +3.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 19.0% | 25.0% | 26.0% | 30.0% |
| Mathematics | 13.0% | 22.0% | 28.0% | 37.0% |
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 | 44.0% | 35.0% |
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 26.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 27.0% |
| 2021-22 | 38.0% | 35.0% |
| 2020-21 | 32.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
35.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 - Mesquite
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite's state test result (35.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite this school | 800 | 75.6% | 35.6% |
| Alamo Elementary School BAYTOWN | 746 | 75.5% | 43.9% |
| Rutherford Elementary School MESQUITE | 803 | 78.2% | 43.2% |
| Royal Elementary School BROOKSHIRE | 760 | 75.9% | 30.2% |
| Travis Elementary School BAYTOWN | 709 | 77.9% | 32.7% |
| IDEA Judson Academy SAN ANTONIO | 701 | 73.6% | 57.0% |
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 - Mesquite ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #3,102 of 4,401 | #255 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #3,403 of 4,466 ▲ 120 | #314 of 429 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #3,197 of 4,466 ▼ 221 | #271 of 429 ▼ 34 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #2,179 of 3,998 | #178 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 800 | #446 of 4,938 | #30 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #4,201 of 4,622 | #396 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.6% | #2,082 of 4,628 | #145 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.6% | #2,235 of 4,789 | #316 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
800
+596 (+292%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 800 | 44.5 | 18.0:1 | 76% (605) |
| 2023-24 | 816 | 43.1 | 18.9:1 | 99% (810) |
| 2022-23 | 656 | 36 | 18.2:1 | 87% (568) |
| 2020-21 | 204 | 21 | 9.7:1 | 89% (182) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite.
About Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite is a large elementary school in MESQUITE, Texas, administered by TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY. It enrolls 800 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 8. It has 54% more students than the average for elementary schools in Texas (about 519).
In TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY, 8 schools enroll a combined 7,007 students.
More than half of the students at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite are Hispanic (65%). Next come 18% Black, 12% White, 2% multiracial, and 2% Native American. That compares with about 41% Hispanic among all Dallas County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 54%.
Teacher count: 44.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 18.0:1. The gap from the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas is 2.9 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 76%. The figure for public schools in Dallas County is close, at 77%.
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 35.6% is 5.8 points below the 41.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census data for Dallas County show median household income comes to about $76,547, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 771 public schools and about 459,645 students.
Among nearby public schools, Range Elementary School is closest at about 0.2 miles. Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite ranks 7th on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite is a publicly funded charter school.
The school counted 204 students in 2020-21 and 800 in 2024-25. A shift in the grades offered could account for part of the difference. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 18.0:1, from 9.7:1.
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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 TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - Fort WorthElementary · 2,020 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - DallasElementary · 1,873 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - Titan AcademyHigh · 544 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - SouthElementary · 534 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - WestElementary · 441 students
- Trinity Basin Preparatory - Grand PrairieElementary · 433 students
Other schools in MESQUITE
- Horn High SchoolHigh · 2,757 students
- Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 2,294 students
- North Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- West Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 1,997 students
- Vroonland - Vanguard High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Poteet High SchoolHigh · 1,523 students
Nearby schools
- Range Elementary School0.2 mi · 587
- Uplift Luna Prep High School0.9 mi · 472
- Uplift Luna Prep Middle School0.9 mi · 591
- Uplift Luna Prep PS0.9 mi · 719
- McKenzie Elementary School1.1 mi · 406
- Motley Elementary School1.2 mi · 244
Frequently asked questions
About Trinity Basin Preparatory - MesquiteHow large is Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite?
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite enrolls approximately 800 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite serve?
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite have?
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite?
Student demographics at Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite are roughly 12% White, 65% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite?
Trinity Basin Preparatory - Mesquite is overseen by TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY in Dallas County.
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