KIPP Alegria Primary School

Size

KIPP Alegria Primary School is the 14th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 22 elementary schools; its 532 students are 1.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 367 students, so KIPP Alegria Primary School 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 kindergarten with 95 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 78, against an average of 89 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 95 in kindergarten and 87 in grade 4. It also enrolls 91 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 79.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across KIPP Texas Public Schools (68.2%). Black students are next, at 10.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 90.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

KIPP Alegria Primary School has 27.33 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 532 students would have about 35.9 teachers, so KIPP Alegria Primary School has 8.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Austin Discovery School, 0.4 miles away in Austin Discovery School. There are 26 elementary schools within 5 miles and 101 within 10 miles.

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