YES Prep - Hobby

Size

YES Prep - Hobby is the smallest of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's 15 high schools; its 685 students are 3.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.5 miles away and have a median of 430 students, so YES Prep - Hobby 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 145 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 82, against an average of 114 per grade. This year grade 11 has 37% fewer students than grade 6 (82 against 131). 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 83.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across YES Prep Public Schools Inc (87.6%). Black students are next, at 14.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.4% 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 - Hobby has 42.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 685 students would have about 48.9 teachers, so YES Prep - Hobby has 6.6 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 Hobby, 0.1 miles away in Texans Can Academies. There are 17 high schools within 5 miles and 54 within 10 miles.

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