Premier High School-Austin South Campus

Size

Premier High School-Austin South Campus is the 12th largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 143 students are 1.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 302 students, so Premier High School-Austin South Campus 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 10 with 43 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 5, against an average of 29 per grade. This year grade 12 has 420% more students than grade 8 (26 against 5). 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 62.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Premier High Schools (57.4%). White students are next, at 28.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

57.3% 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. 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

Premier High School-Austin South Campus has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 23.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 143 students would have about 10.2 teachers, so Premier High School-Austin South Campus has 4.2 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Richards School for Young Women Leaders, 0.8 miles away in Austin ISD. There are 14 high schools within 5 miles and 35 within 10 miles.

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