Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch

Size

Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch is the 31st largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 101 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 802; Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch 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 33 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 20, against an average of 25 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 25 in grade 9 and 23 in grade 12.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 57.4% here and 57.4% across Premier High Schools. White students are next, at 18.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

71.3% 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 5.29 full-time-equivalent teachers for 101 students, Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch has 19.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 101 students would have about 7.2 teachers, so Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch has 1.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Texasworks - Austin-Wells Branch (in Texas Works) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 39 other high schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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