KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY

KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY, a tight-knit junior high in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, works with 408 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 37% smaller than typical.

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

Demographically, KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder breaks down as 4% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: KIPP UN MUNDO PRI, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 22.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. KIPP CAMINO ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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