KIPP Peace Elementary School

Size

KIPP Peace Elementary School is the 15th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 22 elementary schools; its 525 students are 1.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 349 students, so KIPP Peace Elementary 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 grade 2 with 98 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 71, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 4 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (85 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 71 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 72.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across KIPP Texas Public Schools (25.5%). Hispanic students are next, at 24%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96% of students qualify 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

KIPP Peace Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 21.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 525 students would have about 35.5 teachers, so KIPP Peace Elementary School has 11.5 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Peck Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 64 elementary schools within 5 miles and 202 within 10 miles.

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