KIPP Climb Academy

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools, KIPP Climb Academy is the 12th largest, with 2.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 509; KIPP Climb Academy 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 pre-K with 128 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 104, against an average of 113 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 104 in kindergarten and 104 in grade 4. It also enrolls 128 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 79.7% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Black students are next, at 17.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

71% 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 35.75 full-time-equivalent teachers for 679 students, KIPP Climb Academy has 19 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 679 students would have about 45.9 teachers, so KIPP Climb Academy has 10.1 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 Climb Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Bonner Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Houston ISD. Within 10 miles there are 169 other elementary schools, 59 of them within 5 miles.

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