Premier H S - Desoto

Size

Premier H S - Desoto is the 38th largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 72 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 218; Premier H S - Desoto is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools. 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 11 with 20 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 16, against an average of 18 per grade. This year grade 12 has 11% fewer students than grade 9 (16 against 18). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 61.1% here and 11.6% across Premier High Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 36.1%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 76.8% across Premier High Schools and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

With 4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 72 students, Premier H S - Desoto has 18 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 72 students would have about 5.1 teachers, so Premier H S - Desoto has 1.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Premier H S - Desoto is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. Texasworks - Desoto (in Texas Works) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 30 other high schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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