KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in DALLAS, Texas, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI educates 496 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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

In terms of who attends, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI reports that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 37% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.2%; this one comes in at 14.3%, -17.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI is one campus in the mix.

SCHOOL FOR THE TALENTED & GIFTED IN PLEASANT GROVE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI. On composite proficiency, KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. KIPP PLEASANT GROVE PRI 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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