Sallye R Moore College & Career Preparatory, Grand Prairie TX

Original Research by School Decision on Sallye R Moore College & Career Preparatory

Sallye R. Moore College and Career Preparatory is a Grand Prairie ISD campus in Grand Prairie, Texas, serving students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Its name signals an institutional ambition toward college and career readiness from the earliest years, though the tested grades produce a mixed academic picture that parents will want to examine carefully.

On the Texas STAAR assessment, reading and language arts results are the relative strength. Proficiency rates in ELA climb through the middle grades, reaching their highest point in seventh grade, where a clear majority of tested students scored at or above grade level. Eighth grade ELA and sixth grade ELA also clear the majority threshold. Math tells a more uneven story. Fifth grade math proficiency is the standout, with more than half of students reaching the bar, but third, fourth, and seventh grade math results fall in the low-to-mid thirties range, meaning most students in those grades did not score proficient. Eighth grade math sits in the low forties. Science results split sharply by grade: eighth grade science shows a majority proficient, while fifth grade science proficiency is quite low. The single social studies measure, taken in eighth grade, is also low. Across the full set of tested subjects and grades, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile relative to districts across Dallas County, which is worth noting given the school's demographic profile, though that comparison is against districts rather than individual schools and a parent should interpret it with that in mind.

Texas STAAR also reports performance at three thresholds: Approaches, Meets, and Masters. Schoolwide, the large majority of students reach the Approaches threshold in ELA and social studies, meaning they demonstrate at least foundational command of grade-level content. Roughly half meet the Meets Grade Level bar in math and ELA taken together. The Masters level, representing the deepest command of grade-level work, is reached by a smaller share across subjects. Trend data is not available from prior years in the payload, so whether these results represent improvement or stability is not something this account can address.

The student body is predominantly Hispanic and Black, together accounting for the large majority of enrollment. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this campus in the higher-need range economically. Data on English learner rates and special education rates were not available in what was provided. The school is a regular public school within Grand Prairie ISD and is not a charter or magnet campus.

Grand Prairie sits inside the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and, publicly reported, draws a diverse, partly immigrant population with resident employment concentrated in health care, manufacturing, and retail. Housing values near the school are modestly below the Texas statewide benchmark and well below the national median, and rents have edged slightly lower year over year, which can make the area accessible for families weighing housing costs alongside school choice. The district brief search was not able to surface specific recent changes in Grand Prairie ISD before its research budget was exhausted, so that information is left out rather than guessed at.

No information on program offerings, course access, staffing, discipline, or attendance was present in the data provided. A parent with questions about specific enrichment programs, support services for English learners, or what the school's college and career preparatory identity means in practice at the elementary and middle level would want to raise those directly with the school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 329%

School 29% · District 38% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 39% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 42% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 645%

School 45% · District 27% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 734%

School 34% · District 25% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 843%

School 43% · District 34% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 45% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 45% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 40% · ▲ 14 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 655%

School 55% · District 46% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 762%

School 62% · District 42% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 38% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 12% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 37% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 821%

School 21% · District 21%

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

This schoolGRAND PRAIRIE ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income36%Higher-income64%28 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income37%Higher-income41%4 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income49%Higher-income64%15 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income46%Higher-income81%35 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income59%Higher-income68%9 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income57%Higher-income43%14 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income24%Higher-income50%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income23%Higher-income45%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income50%Higher-income76%26 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income38%Higher-income69%31 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income21%Higher-income64%43 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income43%Higher-income45%2 pp gap