KIPP DREAM PREP

KIPP DREAM PREP is an elementary school of well-populated scale in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, works with 929 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 79% larger than the state mean of about 519.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP DREAM PREP shows that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 9% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KIPP DREAM PREP higher than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP DREAM PREP tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 DREAM PREP is one.

KIPP 3D ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KIPP DREAM PREP comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

KIPP DREAM PREP operates from an inner-city location. KIPP DREAM PREP operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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