Southwest Public Schools College &career Prep Academy

Size

Southwest Public Schools College &career Prep Academy is the largest of Southwest Public Schools' 2 high schools; its 462 students are 24.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 735 students, so Southwest Public Schools College &career Prep Academy 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 138 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 94, against an average of 116 per grade. This year grade 12 has 32% fewer students than grade 9 (94 against 138). 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 95.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Southwest Public Schools (89.7%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94.1% across Southwest Public 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

Southwest Public Schools College &career Prep Academy has 1.62 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 285.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 462 students would have about 33 teachers, so Southwest Public Schools College &career Prep Academy has 31.4 fewer.

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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Wisdom High School, 0.3 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 21 high schools within 5 miles and 70 within 10 miles.

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