KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS

KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS is one of the cozy 6-8 campuss in AUSTIN, Texas, run under KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 388 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 56 schools and 33,437 students, KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS is one campus in the system.

On demographics, KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS records that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.1%; actual is 30.7%, a gap of -19.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Travis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS is one.

Nearest neighbor: KIPP ALEGRIA PRI, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 20.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. KIPP AUSTIN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 94% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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