Premier High Schools

Lewisville, Texas · Hidalgo County · Grades Pre-K–12 · Charter

Premier High Schools runs 48 schools (2 elementary, 46 high) with 7,948 students. By enrollment it is the 152nd largest of 1210 districts in Texas, where the median district has 886 students. NCES classifies its area as city, large.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Rank compares the 1210 Texas districts listed on this site.

District at a glance

Schools	48
Students	7,948
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	420.4
Students per teacher	18.9 (state 14.9)
Free or reduced-price lunch eligible	76.8% (state 61.6%)
County	Hidalgo County
Area type	City, large
NCES district ID	4800207

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25, totals of the district's schools. Students per teacher = students ÷ full-time-equivalent teachers.

Schools in Premier High Schools

School	Level	Grades	Students	Per teacher	Free/reduced lunch
Foundation School of Autism - San Antonio	Elementary	Pre-K–1	38	6.3	44.7%
Premier H S - Corpus Christi	High	9–12	137	21.6	86.9%
Premier H S - Desoto	High	9–12	72	18	65.3%
Premier H S - Fort Worth (Jacksboro)	High	9–12	101	17.6	96%
Premier H S - Fort Worth (Southside)	High	9–12	118	19.9	83.9%
Premier H S - Houston - Hobby	High	9–12	97	22.4	90.7%
Premier H S - Houston (Greenspoint)	High	9–12	60	20	65%
Premier H S - Houston (Sharpstown)	High	9–12	91	35.1	93.4%
Premier H S - Longview	High	9–12	43	14.3	65.1%
Premier H S - Lubbock (Briercroft)	High	9–12	140	21	92.9%
Premier H S - San Angelo	High	9–12	180	19.3	68.3%
Premier H S - Wichita Falls	High	9–12	88	13.1	73.9%
Premier H S Houston Gallery North	High	9–12	108	21.6	89.8%
Premier H S Mesquite	High	9–12	103	24.4	89.3%
Premier H S Odessa	High	9–12	99	30	68.7%
Premier H S of Abilene	High	9–12	176	18.1	66.5%
Premier H S of Amarillo	High	9–12	250	17.9	59.2%
Premier H S of Arlington	High	9–12	176	19.6	79%
Premier H S of Brownsville	High	9–12	147	17.6	85.7%
Premier H S of Comanche/Early	High	9–12	65	21.7	78.5%
Premier H S of Dayton	High	9–12	112	17.7	54.5%
Premier H S of Del Rio	High	9–12	60	18	80%
Premier H S of Fort Worth	High	9–12	124	24.8	90.3%
Premier H S of Granbury	High	9–12	153	22.2	53.6%
Premier H S of Huntsville	High	9–12	67	22.3	74.6%
Premier H S of Laredo	High	9–12	138	16.5	97.8%
Premier H S of Lubbock	High	9–12	175	28.5	76.6%
Premier H S of Midland	High	9–12	162	26.1	46.3%
Premier H S of Mission	High	9–12	178	28.1	99.4%
Premier H S of New Braunfels	High	9–12	72	18	51.4%
Premier H S of Palmview	High	9–12	108	16.2	99.1%
Premier H S of Pflugerville	High	9–12	120	38.2	54.2%
Premier H S of San Juan	High	9–12	108	17.2	92.6%
Premier H S of Texarkana	High	9–12	88	17.6	67%
Premier H S of Tyler	High	9–12	38	12.7	81.6%
Premier H S of Waco	High	9–12	128	20.2	84.4%
Premier H S of Weslaco	High	9–12	112	25.4	95.5%
Premier H S Online	High	9–12	2,728	16.7	–
Premier H S-Foundation School of Autism-Plano	Elementary	Pre-K–1	10	14.1	60%
Premier H S-Houston (Champions)	High	9–12	109	16.3	74.3%
Premier High School-Austin South Campus	High	8–12	143	23.8	57.3%
Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch	High	9–12	101	19.1	71.3%
Premier High School-Canyon	High	9–12	32	16	40.6%
Premier High School-El Paso Eastpointe	High	9–12	125	17.9	82.4%
Premier High School-El Paso Mesa	High	9–12	121	30.3	79.3%
Premier High School-San Antonio Ingram	High	9–12	116	38.7	77.6%
Premier High School-San Antonio Windcrest	High	9–12	78	26	74.4%
Premier High Schools - Edinburg Career & Technical	High	9–12	153	17.6	94.8%

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25.

Map of Premier High Schools schools

Locations: NCES EDGE. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Premier High Schools in context

Size

Premier High Schools enrolls 0.1% of Texas' 5,544,769 public school students and is larger than the median district (886 students). The largest of its schools is Premier H S Online with 2,728 students, and the smallest is Premier H S-Foundation School of Autism-Plano with 10; the average is 166, against 626 statewide. NCES lists Premier High Schools as an independent charter district: a charter school operator that is its own local education agency rather than part of a geographic school district.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment. Share = district students ÷ all students in Texas schools listed here; averages = students ÷ schools.

Grades

Its largest grade this year is grade 12, with 2,113 students. Grade 12 has 2,113 students and kindergarten has 19, 11021% more in the later grade. Each grade is a different group of students, so this is not a dropout or growth rate. Premier High Schools enrolls 18 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade, all schools in the district.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group in Premier High Schools at 57.4%, above their 53.5% share of Texas public school students. White students make up 26.8%.

76.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 61.6% statewide. By school, the share runs from 40.6% at Premier High School-Canyon to 99.4% at Premier H S of Mission. 18 of its 48 schools serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision or Provision 2 or 3; at the others, families apply based on income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District and state shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Staff

Its 420.4 full-time-equivalent teachers work out to 18.9 students per teacher, more than the state's 14.9. With 17 counselors it has 468 students per counselor; the median Texas district has 379, and the American School Counselor Association recommends no more than 250. It reports no librarians or media specialists.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 district staff file (full-time equivalents). Students per counselor = district students ÷ counselors. Benchmark: American School Counselor Association, 250 students per counselor.

Location

Premier High Schools is based inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, an area NCES calls city, large. The nearest district is Burnet CISD, 8.1 miles away with 3,209 students. 5 districts are within 25 miles, and 1 of them enrolls more students than Premier High Schools. Hidalgo County has 24 districts on this site.

Source: NCES EDGE locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines between the average locations of each district's schools.

Staff

Role	Full-time equivalent	Students per staff member
Teachers	125.9	63
School counselors	17	468
Librarians and media specialists	0	–
School psychologists	0	–
Instructional aides	79	101
Other student support staff	93	85
School administrators	92.1	86
District administrators	18	442
All staff	1,170.2

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 district staff file. Students per staff member = district students ÷ full-time-equivalent staff in that role. The median Texas district has 379 students per counselor.

Students by race and ethnicity

Students by race and ethnicity
Hispanic	57.4%
White	26.8%
Black	11.6%
Two or more races	2.9%
Asian	0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.2%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0.2%

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership, all schools in the district.

Students by grade

Students by grade
Pre-K	18
Kindergarten	19
Grade 1	11
Grade 8	5
Grade 9	1,731
Grade 10	2,043
Grade 11	2,008
Grade 12	2,113

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership.

Nearby school districts

District	Distance	Students	Per teacher	Calendar 2026–2027
Burnet CISD	8 mi	3,209	15	–
Marble Falls ISD	18 mi	4,001	13.6	–
Great Hearts Texas	19 mi	12,926	20	–
Lampasas ISD	19 mi	3,640	14.2	–
Llano ISD	20 mi	1,968	13	–
Cherokee ISD	26 mi	123	6.4	–
Lometa ISD	27 mi	316	11	–
Liberty Hill ISD	29 mi	9,836	14.8	–

Distance between the average locations of each district's schools (NCES EDGE).

Other school districts in Hidalgo County

IDEA Public Schools (79,430 students)
Edinburg CISD (33,343 students)
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (29,613 students)
La Joya ISD (22,942 students)
McAllen ISD (19,890 students)
Weslaco ISD (16,300 students)
Mission CISD (13,765 students)
Donna ISD (12,937 students)
Sharyland ISD (9,844 students)
Vanguard Academy (6,814 students)
South Texas ISD (4,639 students)
Edcouch-Elsa ISD (4,349 students)
Mercedes ISD (4,207 students)
Valley View ISD (3,444 students)
Hidalgo ISD (2,918 students)
Progreso ISD (1,339 students)
Horizon Montessori Public Schools (1,164 students)
Monte Alto ISD (819 students)
La Villa ISD (512 students)
Triumph Public High Schools-Rio Grande Valley (457 students)
Texas Works (446 students)
Brillante Academy (354 students)
Excellence in Leadership Academy (183 students)

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25, county of each district's office.

Contact

1301 Waters Ridge Dr., Lewisville, TX 75057
Phone: (972)316-3663
Website: responsiveed.com

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 directory.