KIPP WONDER ACADEMY

Set in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, KIPP WONDER ACADEMY is a reasonably sized elementary campus, one of the schools within KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It instructs 283 students across grades pre-K through 4.

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

On demographics, KIPP WONDER ACADEMY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the income-and-resources front, KIPP WONDER ACADEMY records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIPP WONDER ACADEMY sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 49.4%; actual is 69.5%, +20.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, St. Louis city reports that median household income runs about $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 WONDER ACADEMY is one.

MONROE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP WONDER ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, KIPP WONDER ACADEMY comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

KIPP WONDER ACADEMY operates from a high-density location. As a public charter, KIPP WONDER ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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