YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL

YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL is a four-year high school of medium-sized scale in HOUSTON, Texas, part of YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, hosting 1,002 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL is one of 24 schools operated by YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, a district that caters to 19,573 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL shows that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL 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 34.8%; YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL posts 61.1%, +26.3 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL is one.

NORTH CENTRAL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. YES PREP - NORTH CENTRAL 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 - NORTH CENTRAL has edged up 3%, going from 975 students in 2018 to 1,002 in 2025.

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