YES Prep - 5th Ward

Size

Of the 15 high schools in YES Prep Public Schools Inc, YES Prep - 5th Ward is the 12th largest, with 4.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 498; YES Prep - 5th Ward 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 7 with 160 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 101, against an average of 133 per grade. This year grade 12 has 32% fewer students than grade 6 (101 against 149). 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: 92.2% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.3% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc 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 59.33 full-time-equivalent teachers for 933 students, YES Prep - 5th Ward has 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 933 students would have about 66.6 teachers, so YES Prep - 5th Ward has 7.3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

YES Prep - 5th Ward is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Mickey Leland College Prep Academy for Young Men, 0.4 miles away in Houston ISD. Within 10 miles there are 76 other high schools, 24 of them within 5 miles.

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