KIPP Journey Primary School

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools, KIPP Journey Primary School is the 4th largest, with 3.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 544; KIPP Journey 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 247 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 119, against an average of 150 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (129 against 143). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 247 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 45.6% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Black students are next, at 39.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.2% 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 43.85 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,052 students, KIPP Journey Primary School has 24 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,052 students would have about 71.1 teachers, so KIPP Journey Primary School has 27.2 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 Journey Primary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Harmony Science Academy-Sugar Land, 0.8 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - Houston West. Within 10 miles there are 161 other elementary schools, 50 of them within 5 miles.

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