YES PREP EAST END EL

Located at 8329 LAWNDALE ST, in HOUSTON, Texas, YES PREP EAST END EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that works with 607 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC.

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

In terms of who attends, YES PREP EAST END EL records that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, YES PREP EAST END EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. YES PREP EAST END EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

YES PREP - EAST END is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YES PREP EAST END EL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. YES PREP EAST END EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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