UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE

UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE, a modestly sized primary school in DUNCANVILLE, Texas, run under UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY, enrolls 258 students, covering grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 50% below typical.

UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,703 students; UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 29% White, 17% Black, 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE is one.

DUNCANVILLE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE. On composite proficiency, UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY - DUNCANVILLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 17%: 220 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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