YES PREP - 5TH WARD

YES PREP - 5TH WARD operates as a reasonably sized senior high in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. Current enrollment sits at 933 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

Across the 24 schools in YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC (19,573 students total), YES PREP - 5TH WARD accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, YES PREP - 5TH WARD records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, YES PREP - 5TH WARD tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 YES PREP - 5TH WARD is one.

The closest other public school is MICKEY LELAND COLLEGE PREP ACAD FOR YOUNG MEN, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, YES PREP - 5TH WARD comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. YES PREP - 5TH WARD is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. YES PREP - 5TH WARD's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 895 (now 933). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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