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KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
About KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY
KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a small middle school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 405 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 37% smaller than typical.
Within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 56 schools and 33,437 students, KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows that Black students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of -8.5 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
Nearest neighbor: KIPP PEACE EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.
KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates from a high-density location. KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
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Harris County at a glance
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