KIPP Pleasant Grove Primary School

Size

KIPP Pleasant Grove Primary School is the 18th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 22 elementary schools; its 496 students are 1.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 495; KIPP Pleasant Grove 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 5 with 80 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 49, against an average of 71 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (80 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 49 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 56.9% here and 25.5% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 36.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.4% 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 25.46 full-time-equivalent teachers for 496 students, KIPP Pleasant Grove Primary School has 19.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 496 students would have about 33.5 teachers, so KIPP Pleasant Grove Primary School has 8 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 Pleasant Grove Primary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Edward Titche Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Dallas ISD. Within 10 miles there are 152 other elementary schools, 59 of them within 5 miles.

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