Premier H S Odessa

Size

Premier H S Odessa is the 32nd largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 99 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 416; Premier H S Odessa 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 40 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 4, against an average of 25 per grade. This year grade 12 has 90% fewer students than grade 9 (4 against 40). 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 Hispanic students: 86.9% here and 57.4% across Premier High Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

68.7% 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 3.3 full-time-equivalent teachers for 99 students, Premier H S Odessa has 30 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 99 students would have about 7.1 teachers, so Premier H S Odessa has 3.8 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 Odessa is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is Odessa Career and Technical Early College High School, 0.5 miles away in Ector County ISD. Within 10 miles there are 8 other high schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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