KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY

As a cozy junior high in HOUSTON, Texas, KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY hosts 453 students from grades 5 through 8, run under KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 30% smaller than the state mean of about 643.

Across the 56 schools in KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (33,437 students total), KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest reads as 20% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.1%; this one delivers 39.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

Nearest neighbor: KIPP CLIMB ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates from a city-core location. KIPP PRIME 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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