KIPP Truth Academy

Size

Of the 18 middle schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools, KIPP Truth Academy is the 9th largest, with 1.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 443 students, so KIPP Truth Academy 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 6 with 122 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 93, against an average of 110 per grade. This year grade 8 has 25% more students than grade 5 (116 against 93). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 50% of enrollment, a lower share than across KIPP Texas Public Schools (68.2%). Black students are next, at 46.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

98.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 90.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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 Truth Academy has 24.17 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 440 students would have about 30.6 teachers, so KIPP Truth Academy has 6.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

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 middle school is Boude Storey Middle School, 1.4 miles away in Dallas ISD. There are 19 middle schools within 5 miles and 59 within 10 miles.

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