North Central Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in YES Prep Public Schools Inc, North Central Elementary School is the largest, with 4.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 546 students, so North Central Elementary School is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 5 with 144 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 66, against an average of 123 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% more students than kindergarten (144 against 124). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 66 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 93.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across YES Prep Public Schools Inc (87.6%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.3% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

North Central Elementary School has 49.72 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 863 students would have about 58.3 teachers, so North Central Elementary School has 8.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Hinojosa EC/PK/K, 0.2 miles away in Aldine ISD. There are 47 elementary schools within 5 miles and 162 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.