KIPP Aspire Academy

Size

KIPP Aspire Academy is the 6th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 18 middle schools; its 470 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 450; KIPP Aspire Academy is close to their typical size.

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 127 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 109, against an average of 118 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 109 in grade 5 and 113 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 93.4% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94% 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 20.25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 470 students, KIPP Aspire Academy has 23.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 470 students would have about 32.6 teachers, so KIPP Aspire Academy has 12.4 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 Aspire Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Harris Middle School, 0.6 miles away in San Antonio ISD. Within 10 miles there are 46 other middle schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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