KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S

KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S, a compact 9-12 campus in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, instructs 622 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

Within KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 56 schools and 33,437 students, KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S is one campus in the system.

On demographics, KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 33% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S qualify 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 somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of -0.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S is one.

The closest other public school is KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 24.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site. KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On this page, members of the KIPP SUNNYSIDE H S community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.