YES Prep - Gulfton

Size

Of the 15 high schools in YES Prep Public Schools Inc, YES Prep - Gulfton is the 3rd largest, with 5.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 491; YES Prep - Gulfton 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 165 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 118, against an average of 148 per grade. This year grade 12 has 18% fewer students than grade 6 (133 against 163). 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: 91% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.1% 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 61.24 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,039 students, YES Prep - Gulfton has 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,039 students would have about 74.2 teachers, so YES Prep - Gulfton has 13 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 - Gulfton is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Premier H S - Houston (Sharpstown), 0.1 miles away in Premier High Schools. Within 10 miles there are 70 other high schools, 25 of them within 5 miles.

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