YES Prep Hobby Elementary School

Size

YES Prep Hobby Elementary School is the smallest of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's 9 elementary schools; its 186 students are 1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 509; YES Prep Hobby Elementary School is smaller 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 kindergarten with 53 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 39, against an average of 47 per grade. This year grade 2 has 26% fewer students than kindergarten (39 against 53). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 43 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 74.7% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Black students are next, at 21%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.3% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 18.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 186 students, YES Prep Hobby Elementary School has 10.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 186 students would have about 12.6 teachers, so YES Prep Hobby Elementary School has 5.8 more.

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

Location

YES Prep Hobby Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is KIPP Climb Academy, 0.7 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 163 other elementary schools, 57 of them within 5 miles.

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