YES PREP NORTH FOREST

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, YES PREP NORTH FOREST is a mid-tier four-year high school, operated by YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. It serves 991 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% bigger than the state mean of about 796.

YES PREP NORTH FOREST is one of 24 schools operated by YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, a district that serves 19,573 students overall.

Demographically, YES PREP NORTH FOREST reports that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 9% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting YES PREP NORTH FOREST higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YES PREP NORTH FOREST performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the area at large, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), YES PREP NORTH FOREST is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NORTH FOREST EL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YES PREP NORTH FOREST at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 28.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. YES PREP NORTH FOREST operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 10%: 903 students in 2018 compared to 991 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 90% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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