PREMIER H S OF WESLACO

PREMIER H S OF WESLACO operates as a very small 9-12 campus in WESLACO, Texas, part of PREMIER HIGH SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 112 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 86% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Within PREMIER HIGH SCHOOLS, which oversees 49 schools and 7,966 students, PREMIER H S OF WESLACO is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PREMIER H S OF WESLACO logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), PREMIER H S OF WESLACO is one campus in the mix.

TEXASWORKS - WESLACO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PREMIER H S OF WESLACO.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. PREMIER H S OF WESLACO is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PREMIER H S OF WESLACO has decreased 14%, going from 130 students in 2018 to 112 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 today.

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