KIPP Nexus Primary School

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools, KIPP Nexus Primary School is the 11th largest, with 2.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 522; KIPP Nexus 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 140 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 103, against an average of 123 per grade. This year grade 4 has 21% fewer students than kindergarten (104 against 131). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 140 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 61.4% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Black students are next, at 34.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.5% 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 34.75 full-time-equivalent teachers for 739 students, KIPP Nexus Primary School has 21.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 739 students would have about 49.9 teachers, so KIPP Nexus Primary School has 15.1 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 Nexus Primary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Southwest Public Schools Visual & Perf Arts Academy, 0.5 miles away in Southwest Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 203 other elementary schools, 48 of them within 5 miles.

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