YES Prep - Northwest

Size

YES Prep - Northwest is the 11th largest of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's 15 high schools; its 940 students are 4.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 4.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 2,141; YES Prep - Northwest 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 grade 8 with 164 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 107, against an average of 134 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 128 in grade 6 and 125 in grade 12.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 89% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.5% 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 61.54 full-time-equivalent teachers for 940 students, YES Prep - Northwest has 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 940 students would have about 67.1 teachers, so YES Prep - Northwest has 5.6 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 - Northwest is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Jersey Village High School, 1.4 miles away in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. Within 10 miles there are 40 other high schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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