YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY

As an intimate middle-grades school in HOUSTON, Texas, YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY enrolls 321 students from grades 6 through 10, operated by YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 50% below typical.

YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a school of YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.0%; YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY posts 18.6%, -30.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: H S FOR LAW AND JUSTICE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Inside the community feed, members of the YELLOWSTONE COLLEGE PREPARATORY community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.