YES PREP - GULFTON

YES PREP - GULFTON is a mid-tier high school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. The school caters to 1,039 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so YES PREP - GULFTON sits 31% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, YES PREP - GULFTON logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest looks like 4% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting YES PREP - GULFTON higher than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YES PREP - GULFTON ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.5%; YES PREP - GULFTON posts 50.2%, +18.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) records 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 - GULFTON is one.

PREMIER H S - HOUSTON (SHARPSTOWN) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YES PREP - GULFTON. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YES PREP - GULFTON ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.3%.

YES PREP - GULFTON operates from a high-density location. YES PREP - GULFTON operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. YES PREP - GULFTON's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,080 (now 1,039).

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