KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY

KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY is a tight-knit middle school in HOUSTON, Texas, run under KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school works with 509 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

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

In terms of who attends, KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY logs that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 4% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 30.1%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY is one.

Nearest neighbor: KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.5%.

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

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.