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YES Prep Public Schools company history timeline

2001

2001 - YES College Prep’s first group of 17 seniors graduate, 100% of whom were accepted to a four-year college.

2003

2003 - YES Prep opens its first expansion campus, YES Prep North Central Secondary.

2004

2004 - YES Prep opens third campus, YES Prep Southwest Secondary.

2006

2006 - YES Prep opens fourth campus, YES Prep East End Secondary.

2007

2007 - YES Prep opens fifth campus, YES Prep Gulfton Secondary and is featured for the first time in the top 100 High School in the nation by United States News & World Report.

2009

2009 - YES Prep opens sixth and seventh campus, YES Prep Brays Oaks Secondary and YES Prep West Secondary.

In 2009, YES Prep also becomes the first charter system with teacher certification capacity in Texas through its Teaching Excellence program .

2010

2010 - YES Prep opens its eight campus, YES Prep North Forest Secondary.

In 2010, the Houston Business Journal names YES Prep one of the top places to work in Houston and YES Prep receives $1 million from the Oprah Winfrey on national television.

2011

2011 - YES Prep opens its ninth and tenth campus, YES Prep Fifth Ward Secondary and YES Prep Northside Secondary.

2012

2012 - YES Prep opens its first district-partnership school, YES Prep Northbrook Middle School, as part of the collaboration with Spring Branch ISD and KIPP Houston.

2013

2013 - YES Prep opens its twelfth and thirteenth campus- YES Prep Hoffman Middle School and YES Prep White Oak Secondary.

2015

YES Prep Northbrook High is the second district-partnership school with Spring Branch ISD. In 2015, YES Prep also achieves its long-standing goal of serving 10,000 Houston students.

2016

2016 - YES Prep opens its sixteenth campus and second district-partnership school with Aldine ISD, YES Prep Eisenhower High School.

2017

2017 - YES Prep opens its seventeenth campus, YES Prep Northline Secondary.

In 2017, YES Prep also celebrates 20 years of Leading Houston Forward.

2018

2018 - YES Prep opens its eighteenth campus, YES Prep Northwest Secondary.

2019

2019 - YES Prep opens its nineteenth campus, YES Prep Hobby Secondary.

2020

2020 - YES Prep opens first two elementary schools, YES Prep Southeast Elementary and YES Prep North Central Elementary (the twentieth and twenty-first campuses).

2021

2021 - YES Prep opens a new Home Office administrative office next to the YES Prep Southside campuses.

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