Premier High School-El Paso Mesa

Size

Premier High School-El Paso Mesa is the 19th largest of Premier High Schools' 46 high schools; its 121 students are 1.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 758; Premier High School-El Paso Mesa 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 12 with 46 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 11, against an average of 30 per grade. This year grade 12 has 318% more students than grade 9 (46 against 11). 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: 77.7% here and 57.4% across Premier High Schools. White students are next, at 18.2%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.3% 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. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 121 students, Premier High School-El Paso Mesa has 30.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 121 students would have about 8.6 teachers, so Premier High School-El Paso Mesa has 4.6 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-El Paso Mesa is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Texasworks - El Paso-Mesa (in Texas Works) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 22 other high schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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