KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in WEST HELENA, Arkansas, KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY educates 463 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under KIPP DELTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

KIPP DELTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,231 students. KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY records that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 16.7%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Phillips County shows the typical household earns roughly $40,134 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 25%. In all, Phillips County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,669 students), of which KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting. KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY 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. KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 463). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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