Premier H S Mesquite

Size

Premier H S Mesquite is the 29th largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 103 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 1,999 students, so Premier H S Mesquite 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 9 with 31 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 13, against an average of 26 per grade. This year grade 12 has 58% fewer students than grade 9 (13 against 31). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 50.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Premier High Schools (57.4%). Black students are next, at 28.2%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.3% of students qualify 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

Premier H S Mesquite has 4.22 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 24.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 103 students would have about 7.4 teachers, so Premier H S Mesquite has 3.2 fewer.

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

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 high school is North Mesquite High School, 0.5 miles away in Mesquite ISD. There are 12 high schools within 5 miles and 39 within 10 miles.

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