KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY

As a medium-sized senior high in HOUSTON, Texas, KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY educates 979 students from grades 6 through 12, operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Across the 56 schools in KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (33,437 students total), KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 18% Asian, 7% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY records 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -2.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY is one.

Nearest neighbor: KIPP CONNECT HOUSTON PRI, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP CONNECT PREPARATORY at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

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

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.