KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S

Located at 239 STARK ST, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S is a low-enrollment high school that educates 630 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 33,437 students; KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S is among them.

On demographics, KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.6%; this one delivers 39.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S is one campus in the mix.

KIPP ESPERANZA PRI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 26.4%.

The school occupies an urban site. KIPP UNIVERSITY PREP H S 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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