Founded in 1996, the Raul Yzaguirre School for Success (RYSS) was one of the first open-enrollment charter schools approved by the Texas State Board of Education. By establishing RYSS, the Tejano Center for Community Concerns worked to provide a college preparatory educational experience for children of the center’s surrounding neighborhoods in southeast Houston. Today, RYSS continues its commitment to the success of every student, regardless of his/her academic or economic background, by offering a superior college preparatory experience, with the goal of having every student enter and graduate from a four-year university.

Since our modest beginnings in a small rental facility with an enrollment of 100 students, we have successfully expanded our operation and our reach to a combined enrollment of nearly 1,330 at our two main campuses: the campus in Houston that now occupies an entire city block and a second campus in Brownsville, Texas. In Houston, RYSS operates the Elite Primary Academy that serves children in grades K-5 and the Houston 6-12 STEM and Early College High School. The Brownsville Raul Yzaguirre School for Success Preparatory (BRYSS) was founded in 2002, offering a K-8 college preparatory academic program.