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Open-enrollment charter campus

North Central Elem

Yes Prep Public Schools Inc · Houston · 834 students

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Current score
85/1002025-26
Change
+7 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
+4.5 ptsvs 80.5 average · 425 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
167 of 425tied with 15 others
B85

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving up; under the rules in force back then it scored 77 in 2021-22. The current score is above the 80.5 average for 425 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Recent movement

Overall score rose 6 points

79 to 85 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 85 is 4.5 points above the 80.5 average among 425 charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Recent domain gain

Academic Growth rose 11 points

71 to 82 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 82 is 8.8 points above the 73.2 average among 406 charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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STAAR result

All Subjects above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
51%vs 40.9% avg · +10.1 pts
Masters
24%vs 15.6% avg · +8.4 pts

Among 425 charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

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Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

North Central Elem is rated B by TEA, scoring 85 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 80.5 average for 425 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context. It is up 7 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 167th of 425 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context (tied with 15 others).

Put the numbers in context

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  1. Overview
  2. 5 years of ratings
  3. Where the score comes from
  4. Student outcomes
  5. Who this school serves
  6. Student counts behind the percentages
  7. Enrollment over time
  8. Discipline and removal from class
  9. Spending per student
  10. Teachers and actual class size
  11. Where this comes from

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
908070 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas charter averageNorth Central Elem 7887817985 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated C with 77 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas charter average
2025-26B8580.5 425 reporting81.7 829 reporting
2024-25C7979.1 417 reporting81.3 797 reporting
2023-24B8176.9 408 reporting79.5 776 reporting
2022-23B8776.5 397 reporting79.6 749 reporting
2021-22C7883.9 374 reporting84.5 700 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement77 C+2.3 vs similar economic context · 425 reporting
  • School Progress86 B+4.4 vs similar economic context · 425 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps81 B+3.9 vs similar economic context · 421 reporting
  • Academic Growth82 B+8.8 vs similar economic context · 406 reporting
  • Relative Performance86 B+6.1 vs similar economic context · 422 reporting
  • North Central Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (425 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement77C3
School Progress86B4
Closing the Gaps81B9
Academic Growth82B8
Relative Performance86B4

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 4 points below A in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (86), so Student Achievement (77) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 86.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level75%+6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting
  • Meets grade level51%+10 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting
  • Masters grade level24%+8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level76%+7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting
  • Meets grade level54%+9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting
  • Masters grade level27%+10 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level76%+9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 424 reporting
  • Meets grade level51%+16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 424 reporting
  • Masters grade level21%+8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 424 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level68%−3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 401 reporting
  • Meets grade level42%+3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 401 reporting
  • Masters grade level22%+7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 401 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (425 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only charter campuses for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
834
Economically disadvantaged
88.4%−0.2 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
57.8%+14.7 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
21.3%+8.7 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
94.0%+1.4 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
21.0%−3.1 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

North Central Elem

African American: 4.4%Hispanic: 93.4%White: 1.2%American Indian: 0.4%Asian: 0.4%Two or More Races: 0.2%
  • African American 4.4%
  • Hispanic 93.4%
  • White 1.2%
  • American Indian 0.4%
  • Asian 0.4%
  • Two or More Races 0.2%

Selected comparison average For charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting for every category shown · 425 in full cohort

African American: 18.1%Hispanic: 74.9%White: 3.7%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.6%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 1.3%
  • African American 18.1%
  • Hispanic 74.9%
  • White 3.7%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.6%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 1.3%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
834
Economically disadvantaged students
737
Emergent bilingual students
482
Special education students
178

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
47
Students in TEA mobility denominator
696
TEA-published mobility rate
6.8%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 834 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 29 (3.4%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
834

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−29

Decrease · −3.4%

Change since 2021–22
+326

Increase · +64.2%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
834
Selected comparison
515.6

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 rated charter campuses reporting

Student enrollment by school year for North Central Elem
School yearStudents enrolledNorth Central ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 508 First available year 499.3
2022–23 707 Increase of 199 (39.2%) 513.1
2023–24 857 Increase of 150 (21.2%) 517.9
2024–25 863 Increase of 6 (0.7%) 519.7
2025–26 834 Decrease of 29 (3.4%) 515.6

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting charter campuses in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
Suppressed

Rate not available

Disciplinary actions
Suppressed

Rate not available

Cumulative year-end enrollment
889

2024–25

TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for North Central Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 386 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2021–22 541 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2022–23 731 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2023–24 859 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2024–25 889 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for North Central Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
In-school suspensions Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Out-of-school suspensions Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized charter campuses can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$8k$14k$20k202120232025
  • North Central Elem
  • Parent district: Yes Prep Public Schools Inc
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$11,701
Selected comparison
$11,824

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 419 rated charter campuses reporting

−$123 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $11,701 per student for this campus, $14,639 per student for its parent district, Yes Prep Public Schools Inc, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearNorth Central ElemParent district: Yes Prep Public Schools IncTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2021$10,814$12,123$14,797$9,540 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 363 rated charter campuses reporting
2022$12,396$13,390$15,708$11,368 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 383 rated charter campuses reporting
2023$11,706$14,153$16,792$11,411 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 395 rated charter campuses reporting
2024$11,795$15,204$18,125$11,552 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 405 rated charter campuses reporting
2025$11,701$14,639$18,972$11,824 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 419 rated charter campuses reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$67,991+$4,085 vs similar economic context
Teachers
51+21.7 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
16.2−1.7 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

North Central Elem

Beginning: 19.1%1 to 5 years: 37%6 to 10 years: 34.4%11 to 20 years: 1.9%21 to 30 years: 7.8%
  • Beginning 19.1%
  • 1 to 5 years 37%
  • 6 to 10 years 34.4%
  • 11 to 20 years 1.9%
  • 21 to 30 years 7.8%

Selected comparison average For charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 425 reporting for every category shown · 425 in full cohort

Beginning: 13.2%1 to 5 years: 47.8%6 to 10 years: 19.8%11 to 20 years: 14.6%21 to 30 years: 4%Over 30 years: 0.7%
  • Beginning 13.2%
  • 1 to 5 years 47.8%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.8%
  • 11 to 20 years 14.6%
  • 21 to 30 years 4%
  • Over 30 years 0.7%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for North Central Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classNorth Central Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten22.721.5
Grade 121.522.2
Grade 224.423.3
Grade 324.724.3
Grade 424.624.5
Grade 526.124.1

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 6 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 101845103.