YES PREP - NORTHSIDE

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, YES PREP - NORTHSIDE is an average-sized secondary school, overseen by YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. It instructs 948 students across grades 6 through 12.

YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 19,573 students; YES PREP - NORTHSIDE is among them.

In terms of who attends, YES PREP - NORTHSIDE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest consists of 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, YES PREP - NORTHSIDE reports 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at YES PREP - NORTHSIDE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, YES PREP - NORTHSIDE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.2%; this one delivers 38.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $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 - NORTHSIDE is one.

The closest other public school is ROSS EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, YES PREP - NORTHSIDE comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.5%.

YES PREP - NORTHSIDE operates from an inner-city location. YES PREP - NORTHSIDE 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. YES PREP - NORTHSIDE's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 916 (now 948).

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