Premier H S of Texarkana

Size

Premier H S of Texarkana is the 36th largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 88 students are 1.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 414; Premier H S of Texarkana 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 27 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 12, against an average of 22 per grade. This year grade 12 has 117% more students than grade 9 (26 against 12). 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: 60.2% here and 26.8% across Premier High Schools. Black students are next, at 25%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67% 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 5 full-time-equivalent teachers for 88 students, Premier H S of Texarkana has 17.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 88 students would have about 6.3 teachers, so Premier H S of Texarkana has 1.3 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 Texarkana is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other high school is Texas High School, 0.4 miles away in Texarkana ISD. Within 10 miles there are 5 other high schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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