KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY

KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY is a reasonably sized intermediate school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school instructs 409 students in grades 5 through 8.

KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY is one of 6 schools operated by KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that serves 2,069 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY reports that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 48.3%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is ELIAS MICHAEL ELEM., roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 9%: 374 students in 2018 compared to 409 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 99% to 94%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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