Premier High Schools - Edinburg Career & Technical

Size

Of the 46 high schools in Premier High Schools, Premier High Schools - Edinburg Career & Technical is the 10th largest, with 1.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,355; Premier High Schools - Edinburg Career & Technical 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 9 with 44 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 28, against an average of 38 per grade. This year grade 12 has 36% fewer students than grade 9 (28 against 44). 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: 98% here and 57.4% across Premier High Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.8% 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 8.68 full-time-equivalent teachers for 153 students, Premier High Schools - Edinburg Career & Technical has 17.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 153 students would have about 10.9 teachers, so Premier High Schools - Edinburg Career & Technical has 2.2 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 Schools - Edinburg Career & Technical is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. Texasworks - Edinburg-Cte (in Texas Works) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 45 other high schools, 18 of them within 5 miles.

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