Summary:
Yellowstone College Preparatory is a single middle school in Houston, TX, serving grades 6 through 10 with 321 students, operating as its own charter district and serving a student body where 57% are economically disadvantaged.
As the only school in its district, Yellowstone College Preparatory consistently ranks in the bottom 10% of Texas middle schools, landing at the 8th percentile in the 2025-2026 school year. The school shows a stark contrast between its general math program and advanced coursework. While only 10.34% of 8th graders were proficient in standard 8th-grade math, 60% of students taking the Algebra I End-of-Course exam were proficient—above the state average of 54.03%. This suggests the school effectively accelerates a small group of high-performing math students while the majority struggle. The school's biggest weaknesses are in 8th-grade Science (4.48% proficient vs. 46.25% statewide) and Social Studies (8.96% proficient vs. 29.64% statewide). Overall proficiency rates across grades 6-8 are roughly half the state average in Reading (29.8% vs. 55.4%) and Math (17.9% vs. 38.4%).
There are some positive signs: comparing the 2024-2025 to 2025-2026 school years, proficiency improved in nearly every subject, such as 6th-grade Reading rising from 22.37% to 32.84% and 7th-grade Math from 7.69% to 17.86%. However, the school still lags far behind state averages. With a per-student spending of $14,174 and a low student-teacher ratio of 14.5:1, the school has more resources than many traditional public schools, raising questions about whether those resources are effectively targeting the fundamental reading and math deficits affecting most students. The school's dropout rate is very low at 0.4%, which is typical for a middle school.
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