KIPP Sharpstown College Prep

Size

KIPP Sharpstown College Prep is the 3rd largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 14 high schools; its 789 students are 2.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 830; KIPP Sharpstown College Prep 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 9 with 166 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 114, against an average of 132 per grade. This year grade 11 has 13% fewer students than grade 6 (114 against 131). 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: 79.8% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Black students are next, at 12.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.6% 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 36.48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 789 students, KIPP Sharpstown College Prep has 21.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 789 students would have about 56.4 teachers, so KIPP Sharpstown College Prep has 19.9 fewer.

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

Location

KIPP Sharpstown College Prep is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Southwest Public Schools College &career Prep Academy, 0.8 miles away in Southwest Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 68 other high schools, 24 of them within 5 miles.

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