Premier H S of Midland

Size

Of the 46 high schools in Premier High Schools, Premier H S of Midland is the 8th largest, with 2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 635; Premier H S of Midland 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 44 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 34, against an average of 41 per grade. This year grade 12 has 21% more students than grade 9 (41 against 34). 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: 63.6% here and 57.4% across Premier High Schools. White students are next, at 28.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

46.3% 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 6.21 full-time-equivalent teachers for 162 students, Premier H S of Midland has 26.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 162 students would have about 11.6 teachers, so Premier H S of Midland has 5.4 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 Midland is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is Richard Milburn Academy Midland, 0.7 miles away in Richard Milburn Alternative High School (Killeen). Within 10 miles there are 9 other high schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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