Southside Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in YES Prep Public Schools Inc, Southside Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 349 students, so Southside Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 2 with 118 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 58, against an average of 96 per grade. This year grade 5 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (88 against 99). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 58 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 52.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across YES Prep Public Schools Inc (9.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 44.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.3% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

Southside Elementary School has 47.02 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 675 students would have about 45.6 teachers, so Southside Elementary School has 1.4 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Kelso Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 62 elementary schools within 5 miles and 204 within 10 miles.

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