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UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE
UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE, a compact senior high in DALLAS, Texas, run under UPLIFT EDUCATION, educates 497 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 38% below the state mean of about 796.
UPLIFT EDUCATION runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 23,384 students. UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 11% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.6%; this one delivers 34.8%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE is one.
Nearest neighbor: UPLIFT HEIGHTS PREP MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.
The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. UPLIFT HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 487 (now 497).
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Dallas County at a glance
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