KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY

Located at 955 Arcade Ave, in St. Louis, Missouri, KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY is an intimate middle-grades school that enrolls 305 students (grades 5 through 8), operated by KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,069 students. KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY logs that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.7%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY is one of 113 public schools in St. Louis city (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students).

KIPP VICTORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. KIPP TRIUMPH ACADEMY's enrollment has climbed 11% since 2018, when it stood at 274 (now 305). Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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