KIPP Unity Primary School

Size

KIPP Unity Primary School is the 5th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 22 elementary schools; its 1,050 students are 3.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 489 students, so KIPP Unity Primary School is larger 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 240 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 125, against an average of 150 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% fewer students than kindergarten (132 against 153). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 240 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 56.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across KIPP Texas Public Schools (25.5%). Hispanic students are next, at 34.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.6% 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 Unity Primary School has 46.11 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 22.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,050 students would have about 70.9 teachers, so KIPP Unity Primary School has 24.8 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

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 Arizona Fleming Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Fort Bend ISD. There are 47 elementary schools within 5 miles and 162 within 10 miles.

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