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KIPP EAST END H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 30 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
About KIPP EAST END H S
KIPP EAST END H S is a cozy high school in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school educates 625 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 21% below typical.
KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 33,437 students; KIPP EAST END H S is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP EAST END H S logs that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, KIPP EAST END H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.3%; this one delivers 36.1%.
Around the school, 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%. KIPP EAST END H S is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
Nearest neighbor: KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIPP EAST END H S comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, KIPP EAST END H S runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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