North Forest Elementary School

Size

North Forest Elementary School is the 3rd largest of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's 9 elementary schools; its 772 students are 3.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 541; North Forest 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 3 with 132 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 66, against an average of 110 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% fewer students than kindergarten (98 against 125). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 79.9% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Black students are next, at 15.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.8% of its students are eligible 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

With 48.38 full-time-equivalent teachers for 772 students, North Forest Elementary School has 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 772 students would have about 52.2 teachers, so North Forest Elementary School has 3.8 fewer.

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

Location

North Forest Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Marshall Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Houston ISD. Within 10 miles there are 152 other elementary schools, 33 of them within 5 miles.

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