KIPP Valiant Community Prep

KIPP Valiant Community Prep operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Menlo Park, California, part of KIPP Valiant Community Prep District. Current enrollment sits at 587 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so KIPP Valiant Community Prep sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

KIPP Valiant Community Prep District is the operating authority for KIPP Valiant Community Prep, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, KIPP Valiant Community Prep shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). The remainder comes out to 3% Pacific Islander, 2% Black. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

In the area at large, census data for San Mateo County shows median household earnings sit near $158,855, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Mateo County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), of which KIPP Valiant Community Prep is one.

Laurel Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP Valiant Community Prep.

KIPP Valiant Community Prep operates from a residential location. KIPP Valiant Community Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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