NORTH FOREST EL

NORTH FOREST EL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, hosting 772 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so NORTH FOREST EL sits 49% above that benchmark.

Within YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, which oversees 24 schools and 19,573 students, NORTH FOREST EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, NORTH FOREST EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 80%. The remainder breaks down as 16% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting NORTH FOREST EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at NORTH FOREST EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH FOREST EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which NORTH FOREST EL is one.

The closest other public school is YES PREP NORTH FOREST, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTH FOREST EL. On composite proficiency, NORTH FOREST EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. NORTH FOREST EL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.