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UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 52 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S
As an intimate 9-12 campus in IRVING, Texas, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S instructs 522 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by UPLIFT EDUCATION. Enrollment runs roughly 34% leaner than the state mean of about 796.
Within UPLIFT EDUCATION, which oversees 45 schools and 23,384 students, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S logs that Asian students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 7% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 65.1%; actual is 85.1%, +20.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S is one campus in the mix.
UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP PS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.
The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S has showed little movement, going from 535 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 54% to 67%.
In the discussion threads here, members of the UPLIFT NORTH HILLS PREP H S community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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