KIPP Journey Primary School

At 14030 FLORENCE RD in SUGARLAND, Texas, KIPP Journey Primary School operates as a large elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 1,052 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Texas is about 519 students.

KIPP Journey Primary School is part of a district of 56 schools: KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 33,437 students.

KIPP Journey Primary School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 46%. Other students are 39% Black, 10% Asian, and 3% White. By comparison, Fort Bend County residents are about 25% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

With 43.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at KIPP Journey Primary School was 24.0:1. This ratio sits 8.9 above the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 89%. It compares with 42% for public schools in Fort Bend County.

Measured against Texas public elementary schools, KIPP Journey Primary School receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

KIPP Journey Primary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 39.4% is 3.7 points above the 35.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.

County data help place the school in context: in Fort Bend County, the median household income is $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fort Bend County is home to 217 public schools and about 191,372 public school students.

The school nearest to KIPP Journey Primary School is KIPP Journey Collegiate School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, KIPP Journey Primary School ranks 8th in a group of 9 nearby schools.

The federal government classifies KIPP Journey Primary School's location as Suburb: Large. KIPP Journey Primary School operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 530 to 1,052. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. By 2024-25, the school had 24.0 students per teacher, compared with 26.5 in 2020-21.

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