KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY operates as a compact senior high in BALCH SPRINGS, Texas, one of the schools within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 618 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 33,437 students. KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY lists that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 32% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dallas County) shows that median household earnings sit near $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: MCWHORTER EL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. KIPP PLEASANT GROVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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