YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE is an average-sized high school, run under YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. It educates 860 students across grades 6 through 12.

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

On demographics, YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder looks like 37% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE reports 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 96% of students at YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 35.3%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Around the school, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHSIDE EL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE's enrollment has climbed 37% since 2018, when it stood at 628 (now 860). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 40% to 61%.

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