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KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL
KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL is one of the average-sized 6-8 campuss in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 788 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 10. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL is one of 56 schools operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that hosts 33,437 students overall.
In terms of who attends, KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 20% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of -2.2 points.
In the surrounding community, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
KIPP MOSAIC PRI 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 MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.7%.
The school occupies a downtown site. KIPP MOSAIC ACADEMY SCHOOL 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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