KIPP Esperanza Primary School

Size

KIPP Esperanza Primary School is the 20th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 22 elementary schools; its 424 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 416; KIPP Esperanza Primary School 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 107 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 67, against an average of 85 per grade. This year grade 4 has 60% more students than kindergarten (107 against 67). 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: 89.6% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.2% 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 21.08 full-time-equivalent teachers for 424 students, KIPP Esperanza Primary School has 20.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 424 students would have about 28.6 teachers, so KIPP Esperanza Primary School has 7.5 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 Esperanza Primary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Briscoe Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in San Antonio ISD. Within 10 miles there are 172 other elementary schools, 70 of them within 5 miles.

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