Young Women's Leadership Academy

Size

Young Women's Leadership Academy is the 5th largest of Midland ISD's 8 high schools; its 424 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 605; Young Women's Leadership Academy 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 7 with 87 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 30, against an average of 61 per grade. This year grade 12 has 65% fewer students than grade 6 (30 against 85). 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: 45.5% here and 68% across Midland ISD. White students are next, at 33.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

38.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 60.1% across Midland ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 22.12 full-time-equivalent teachers for 424 students, Young Women's Leadership Academy has 19.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 424 students would have about 30.3 teachers, so Young Women's Leadership Academy has 8.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Young Women's Leadership Academy is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other high school is Viola M Coleman High School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 10 other high schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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