YES Prep - West

Size

YES Prep - West is the 8th largest of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's 15 high schools; its 990 students are 5.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 770; YES Prep - West 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 8 with 166 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 96, against an average of 141 per grade. This year grade 12 has 40% fewer students than grade 6 (96 against 161). 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: 86.1% here and 87.6% across YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.2% 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 60.63 full-time-equivalent teachers for 990 students, YES Prep - West has 16.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 990 students would have about 70.7 teachers, so YES Prep - West has 10.1 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 - West is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Sharpstown International School, 1.7 miles away in Houston ISD. Within 10 miles there are 53 other high schools, 26 of them within 5 miles.

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