KIPP Connect Houston Primary School

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools, KIPP Connect Houston Primary School is the 3rd largest, with 3.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 729; KIPP Connect Houston 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 pre-K with 232 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 129, against an average of 151 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% fewer students than kindergarten (129 against 157). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 232 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 62.3% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Black students are next, at 18.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

76.7% 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 44.8 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,056 students, KIPP Connect Houston Primary School has 23.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,056 students would have about 71.4 teachers, so KIPP Connect Houston Primary School has 26.6 fewer.

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

Location

KIPP Connect Houston Primary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Etoile Academy Charter School, 0.3 miles away in Etoile Academy Charter School. Within 10 miles there are 201 other elementary schools, 70 of them within 5 miles.

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