YES PREP SOUTHWEST OAKS EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, YES PREP SOUTHWEST OAKS EL is a medium-sized elementary school, part of YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. It hosts 447 students across grades pre-K through 2.

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

On the student-mix side, YES PREP SOUTHWEST OAKS EL shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 13% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, On paper, YES PREP SOUTHWEST OAKS EL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible 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.

Across the wider county, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 SOUTHWEST OAKS EL is one.

REAGAN K-8 EDUCATIONAL CTR is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YES PREP SOUTHWEST OAKS EL.

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

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.