UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE

As a modestly sized 6-8 campus in ARLINGTON, Texas, UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE hosts 509 students from grades 6 through 8, part of UPLIFT EDUCATION. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE is one of 45 schools operated by UPLIFT EDUCATION, a district that instructs 23,384 students overall.

Looking at the student body, UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%; the rest reads as 35% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.1%; this one delivers 31.6%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE is one.

UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP PS 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 SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UPLIFT SUMMIT PREP MIDDLE has expanded 7%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 50% to 56%. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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