KIPP JOURNEY PRI

KIPP JOURNEY PRI is an elementary-level community of big scale in SUGARLAND, Texas, one of the schools within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, caters to 1,052 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KIPP JOURNEY PRI sits 103% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, KIPP JOURNEY PRI reports that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 39% Black, 10% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, KIPP JOURNEY PRI reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KIPP JOURNEY PRI higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIPP JOURNEY PRI performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate median household earnings sit near $114,041, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. KIPP JOURNEY PRI is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).

Nearest neighbor: KIPP JOURNEY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIPP JOURNEY PRI comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

The school occupies a residential site. KIPP JOURNEY PRI is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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