KIPP Victory Academy

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in KIPP St Louis Public Schools, KIPP Victory Academy is the largest, with 20.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 265; KIPP Victory Academy is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 1 with 96 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 73, against an average of 87 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 76 in kindergarten and 73 in grade 4.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 96.1% here and 94.3% across KIPP St Louis Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across KIPP St Louis Public Schools and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 67.9% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 32.8 full-time-equivalent teachers for 433 students, KIPP Victory Academy has 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 433 students would have about 35.2 teachers, so KIPP Victory Academy has 2.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

KIPP Victory Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Hamilton Elementary Community Education, 0.7 miles away in St. Louis City School District. Within 10 miles there are 152 other elementary schools, 71 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.