WISDOM PREP MIDDLE

WISDOM PREP MIDDLE is a modestly sized intermediate school in DALLAS, Texas, part of UPLIFT EDUCATION. The school educates 493 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 23% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

UPLIFT EDUCATION runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 23,384 students. WISDOM PREP MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Demographically, WISDOM PREP MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment; the rest looks like 31% Black. 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, WISDOM PREP MIDDLE lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at WISDOM PREP MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WISDOM PREP MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.6%; this one comes in at 21.6%, -14.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), WISDOM PREP MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is UPLIFT WISDOM PREP H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WISDOM PREP MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

WISDOM PREP MIDDLE operates from an inner-city location. WISDOM 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. WISDOM PREP MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked up 89% since 2018, when it stood at 261 (now 493). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 54% to 67%.

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