Preparatory for Early College High School

Size

Of the 3 high schools in Rio Grande City Grulla ISD, Preparatory for Early College High School is the smallest, with 4.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 11.8 miles away and have a median of 583 students, so Preparatory for Early College High School is smaller than most of them.

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 126 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 88, against an average of 108 per grade. This year grade 12 has 17% fewer students than grade 9 (98 against 118). 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 99.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Rio Grande City Grulla ISD (99.5%).

98.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 96.4% across Rio Grande City Grulla ISD 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

Preparatory for Early College High School has 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 430 students would have about 30.7 teachers, so Preparatory for Early College High School has 4.1 more.

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 town, distant, which means it is in a town 10 to 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other high school is IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory, 1 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There is 1 high school within 5 miles and 3 within 10 miles.

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