KIPP Academy West

Size

Of the 18 middle schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools, KIPP Academy West is the 12th largest, with 1.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 764; KIPP Academy West is smaller 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 6 with 116 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 41, against an average of 84 per grade. This year grade 10 has 65% fewer students than grade 6 (41 against 116). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 56.2% here and 25.5% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 34.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 90.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. 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 24.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 422 students, KIPP Academy West has 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 422 students would have about 29.3 teachers, so KIPP Academy West has 4.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

KIPP Academy West is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Hodges Bend Middle School, 1.5 miles away in Fort Bend ISD. Within 10 miles there are 48 other middle schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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