KIPP Wonder Academy

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in KIPP St Louis Public Schools, KIPP Wonder Academy is the smallest, with 13.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 155; KIPP Wonder 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 pre-K with 66 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 32, against an average of 47 per grade. This year grade 4 has 33% fewer students than kindergarten (32 against 48). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 66 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 90.8% here and 94.3% across KIPP St Louis Public Schools. Students from 5 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. 71.4% 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 22.5 full-time-equivalent teachers for 283 students, KIPP Wonder Academy has 12.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 283 students would have about 23 teachers, so KIPP Wonder Academy has about as many as that.

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

Location

KIPP Wonder Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Monroe Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in St. Louis City School District. Within 10 miles there are 109 other elementary schools, 51 of them within 5 miles.

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