YES Prep - Southwest

Size

Of the 15 high schools in YES Prep Public Schools Inc, YES Prep - Southwest is the largest, with 5.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 4.1 miles away and have a median of 1,415 students, so YES Prep - Southwest 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 6 with 166 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 127, against an average of 151 per grade. This year grade 12 has 23% fewer students than grade 6 (127 against 166). 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 94.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across YES Prep Public Schools Inc (87.6%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.4% 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 - Southwest has 57.62 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,060 students would have about 75.7 teachers, so YES Prep - Southwest has 18.1 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Madison High School, 1.7 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 8 high schools within 5 miles and 51 within 10 miles.

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