YES Prep Southwest Oaks Elementary School

Size

YES Prep Southwest Oaks Elementary School is the 7th largest of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's 9 elementary schools; its 447 students are 2.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 428; YES Prep Southwest Oaks Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 145 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 73, against an average of 112 per grade. This year grade 2 has 17% fewer students than kindergarten (120 against 145). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 73 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 84.1% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Black students are next, at 13.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.7% 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 27.61 full-time-equivalent teachers for 447 students, YES Prep Southwest Oaks Elementary School has 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 447 students would have about 30.2 teachers, so YES Prep Southwest Oaks Elementary School has 2.6 fewer.

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 Southwest Oaks Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Reagan K-8 Educational Center, 0.4 miles away in Houston ISD. Within 10 miles there are 162 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

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