KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH

KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH is a senior high of tight-knit scale in St. Louis, Missouri, run under KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, serveing 354 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 501.

Across the 6 schools in KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (2,069 students total), KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH shows that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.4%; actual is 28.7%, a gap of -20.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate median household earnings sit near $56,160, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH is one.

CARR LANE VPA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.2%.

KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH operates from a downtown location. KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.