KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in St. Louis, Missouri, KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY caters to 285 students from grades K through 4, one of the schools within KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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

Demographically, KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, KIPP WISDOM 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 65.8%, a residual of +16.3 points.

Around the school, census data for St. Louis city shows the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PEABODY ELEM., roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KIPP WISDOM ACADEMY has fell 32%, going from 421 students in 2018 to 285 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 92% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.