KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY

Located at 5402 LAWNDALE ST, in HOUSTON, Texas, KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that serves 756 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY sits 46% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 6% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.4%; this one delivers 42.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

KIPP EAST END 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 EXPLORE ACADEMY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site. As a public charter, KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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