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UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS
UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in IRVING, Texas, one of the schools within UPLIFT EDUCATION. Current enrollment sits at 644 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% larger than the state mean of about 519.
UPLIFT EDUCATION runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 23,384 students. UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS shows that Asian students make up the majority at 77%; the rest reads as 10% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 77.3%, a residual of +9.3 points.
Around the school, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS. On composite proficiency, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS has increased 15%, going from 558 students in 2018 to 644 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 61% to 77% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.
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