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YES PREP - EAST END
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About YES PREP - EAST END
As a medium-sized high school in HOUSTON, Texas, YES PREP - EAST END caters to 1,014 students from grades 6 through 12, overseen by YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so YES PREP - EAST END sits 27% above that benchmark.
Within YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, which oversees 24 schools and 19,573 students, YES PREP - EAST END is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, YES PREP - EAST END logs that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YES PREP - EAST END performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of +8.2 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which YES PREP - EAST END is one.
YES PREP EAST END EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YES PREP - EAST END. On composite proficiency, YES PREP - EAST END comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.
The campus sits in an urban setting. YES PREP - EAST END is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YES PREP - EAST END has expanded 7%, going from 952 students in 2018 to 1,014 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
On allk12, members of the YES PREP - EAST END community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Harris County at a glance
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