KIPP ESPERANZA PRI

KIPP ESPERANZA PRI operates as a modestly sized elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 424 students spanning grades K through 4.

Within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 56 schools and 33,437 students, KIPP ESPERANZA PRI is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP ESPERANZA PRI records that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, KIPP ESPERANZA PRI has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIPP ESPERANZA PRI performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), KIPP ESPERANZA PRI is one campus in the mix.

KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP ESPERANZA PRI. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP ESPERANZA PRI at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, KIPP ESPERANZA PRI runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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