Premier H S of Abilene

Size

Premier H S of Abilene is the 5th largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 176 students are 2.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 91; Premier H S of Abilene is larger 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 57 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 25, against an average of 44 per grade. This year grade 12 has 96% more students than grade 9 (49 against 25). 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 White students: 57.4% here and 26.8% across Premier High Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 31.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

66.5% 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. 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 9.7 full-time-equivalent teachers for 176 students, Premier H S of Abilene has 18.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 176 students would have about 12.6 teachers, so Premier H S of Abilene has 2.9 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 of Abilene is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. Texasworks - Abilene (in Texas Works) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 10 other high schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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