WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY

Set in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY is a mid-tier elementary school, part of GRAND PRAIRIE ISD. It serves 690 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% larger than the state mean of about 519.

Within GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, which oversees 40 schools and 27,240 students, WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY reports 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Dallas County shows median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

UPLIFT GRAND PREP PS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a residential site. WILLIAM B TRAVIS WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 819 students in 2018 compared to 690 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 77% to 96% over that span.

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