YES Prep - Southside

Size

Of the 15 high schools in YES Prep Public Schools Inc, YES Prep - Southside is the 13th largest, with 4.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.7 miles away and have a median of 644 students, so YES Prep - Southside 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 154 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 80, against an average of 123 per grade. This year grade 12 has 46% fewer students than grade 6 (80 against 147). 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 60.9% of enrollment, a lower share than across YES Prep Public Schools Inc (87.6%). Black students are next, at 36.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.9% 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 - Southside has 57.83 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 860 students would have about 61.4 teachers, so YES Prep - Southside has 3.6 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 Jones Futures Academy, 1 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 28 high schools within 5 miles and 67 within 10 miles.

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