YES PREP - WHITE OAK

YES PREP - WHITE OAK is a medium-sized secondary school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC. The school caters to 942 students in grades 6 through 12.

Across the 24 schools in YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC (19,573 students total), YES PREP - WHITE OAK accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, YES PREP - WHITE OAK lists that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, YES PREP - WHITE OAK lists 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at YES PREP - WHITE OAK qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, YES PREP - WHITE OAK sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.3%; this one delivers 43.8%.

Across the wider county, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), YES PREP - WHITE OAK is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CLIFTON MIDDLE, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YES PREP - WHITE OAK. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YES PREP - WHITE OAK at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 34.5%.

YES PREP - WHITE OAK operates from a city-core location. YES PREP - WHITE OAK operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YES PREP - WHITE OAK has increased 41%, going from 668 students in 2018 to 942 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 13% to 8% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.