Premier H S of Brownsville

Size

Premier H S of Brownsville is the 11th largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 147 students are 1.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 641 students, so Premier H S of Brownsville 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 44 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 27, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 12 has 39% fewer students than grade 9 (27 against 44). 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 93.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Premier High Schools (57.4%).

85.7% 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. 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

Premier H S of Brownsville has 8.34 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 147 students would have about 10.5 teachers, so Premier H S of Brownsville has 2.2 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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. Texasworks - Brownsville (in Texas Works) is listed at the same location. There are 13 high schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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