KIPP ACADEMY WEST

KIPP ACADEMY WEST operates as an intimate middle school in SUGARLAND, Texas, overseen by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 422 students spanning grades 6 through 10. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so KIPP ACADEMY WEST sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 33,437 students; KIPP ACADEMY WEST is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP ACADEMY WEST logs that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at KIPP ACADEMY WEST qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIPP ACADEMY WEST performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Fort Bend County put the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. KIPP ACADEMY WEST is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).

Nearest neighbor: ARIZONA FLEMING EL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP ACADEMY WEST. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP ACADEMY WEST at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.9%.

KIPP ACADEMY WEST operates from a city-core location. KIPP ACADEMY WEST is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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