KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY

KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY is a well-populated elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school works with 780 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY sits 50% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY records that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.9%; this one delivers 35.0%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY is one.

KIPP SPIRIT COLLEGE PREP 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. On composite proficiency, KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site. KIPP ZENITH ACADEMY 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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