YES Prep - Brays Oaks

Size

YES Prep - Brays Oaks is the 2nd largest of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's 15 high schools; its 1,051 students are 5.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 696 students, so YES Prep - Brays Oaks 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 8 with 163 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 126, against an average of 150 per grade. This year grade 12 has 19% fewer students than grade 6 (131 against 161). 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 91.5% of enrollment, about the same share as across YES Prep Public Schools Inc (87.6%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.4% of students qualify 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

YES Prep - Brays Oaks has 58.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,051 students would have about 75.1 teachers, so YES Prep - Brays Oaks has 16.3 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 Texans Can Academy - Houston Southwest, 0.3 miles away in Texans Can Academies. There are 20 high schools within 5 miles and 55 within 10 miles.

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