KIPP Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy

Size

KIPP Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy is the 8th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 14 high schools; its 618 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,488; KIPP Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy is smaller 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 7 with 110 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 62, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 12 has 36% fewer students than grade 6 (70 against 109). 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: 62.8% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Black students are next, at 31.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 90.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 37.58 full-time-equivalent teachers for 618 students, KIPP Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 618 students would have about 44.1 teachers, so KIPP Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy has 6.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

KIPP Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is West Mesquite High School, 1.1 miles away in Mesquite ISD. Within 10 miles there are 34 other high schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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