KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP is a low-enrollment intermediate school, one of the schools within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It caters to 532 students across grades 5 through 8.

KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP is one of 56 schools operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that caters to 33,437 students overall.

Demographically, KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 26% Hispanic. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.6:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.9%; this one delivers 32.5%.

In the area at large, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP. On composite proficiency, KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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