YES Prep - North Central

Size

Of the 15 high schools in YES Prep Public Schools Inc, YES Prep - North Central is the 6th largest, with 5.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 726; YES Prep - North Central 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 164 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 113, against an average of 143 per grade. This year grade 12 has 28% fewer students than grade 6 (113 against 158). 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: 96.9% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.4% 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 58.09 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,002 students, YES Prep - North Central has 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,002 students would have about 71.6 teachers, so YES Prep - North Central has 13.5 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 - North Central is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is Avalos P-Tech School, 1.1 miles away in Aldine ISD. Within 10 miles there are 49 other high schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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