KIPP PEACE EL

KIPP PEACE EL is a moderately sized elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school instructs 525 students in grades pre-K through 4.

KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 33,437 students. KIPP PEACE EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP PEACE EL records that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, KIPP PEACE EL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP PEACE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.0%; this one delivers 26.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 PEACE EL is one.

KIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPARATORY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP PEACE EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. KIPP PEACE EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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