KIPP Somos Primary School

Size

KIPP Somos Primary School is the smallest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 22 elementary schools; its 241 students are 0.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 533 students, so KIPP Somos Primary School 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 pre-K with 81 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 28, against an average of 48 per grade. This year grade 3 has 57% fewer students than kindergarten (29 against 68). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 81 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 78% of enrollment, a higher share than across KIPP Texas Public Schools (68.2%). Black students are next, at 11.2%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.8% 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 Somos Primary School has 17.53 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 241 students would have about 16.3 teachers, so KIPP Somos Primary School has 1.2 more.

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 Colonial Hills Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in North East ISD. There are 46 elementary schools within 5 miles and 166 within 10 miles.

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