Premier High School-Canyon

Size

Premier High School-Canyon is the smallest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 32 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 11.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,112; Premier High School-Canyon 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 14 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 3, against an average of 8 per grade. This year grade 12 has 14% more students than grade 9 (8 against 7). 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: 84.4% here and 26.8% across Premier High Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 15.6%.

40.6% 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 2 full-time-equivalent teachers for 32 students, Premier High School-Canyon has 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 32 students would have about 2.3 teachers, so Premier High School-Canyon has about as many as that.

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-Canyon is in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, fringe. The nearest other high school is Midway Alternative High School, 1.1 miles away in Canyon ISD. Within 10 miles there are 3 other high schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

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