KIPP Austin Obras

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools, KIPP Austin Obras is the 21st largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 398; KIPP Austin Obras 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 4 with 82 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 50, against an average of 62 per grade. This year grade 4 has 64% more students than kindergarten (82 against 50). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 50 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 90.1% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.8% of its students are eligible 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

With 17.99 full-time-equivalent teachers for 373 students, KIPP Austin Obras has 20.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 373 students would have about 25.2 teachers, so KIPP Austin Obras has 7.2 fewer.

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

Location

KIPP Austin Obras is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Uphaus Early Childhood Center (in Austin ISD) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 94 other elementary schools, 42 of them within 5 miles.

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