KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters

Size

KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters is the 16th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 18 middle schools; its 388 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 536; KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters 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 8 with 116 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 88, against an average of 97 per grade. This year grade 8 has 32% more students than grade 5 (116 against 88). 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 Hispanic students: 87.1% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.4% 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 19.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 388 students, KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters has 19.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 388 students would have about 26.9 teachers, so KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters has 7 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 Austin Academy of Arts & Letters is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Garcia Ymla, 2.7 miles away in Austin ISD. Within 10 miles there are 25 other middle schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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