KIPP University Prep High School

Size

KIPP University Prep High School is the 5th largest of KIPP Texas Public Schools' 14 high schools; its 630 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 218; KIPP University Prep High 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 grade 10 with 181 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 127, against an average of 158 per grade. This year grade 12 has 12% fewer students than grade 9 (151 against 171). 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: 92.7% here and 68.2% across KIPP Texas Public Schools. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.4% 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 40.34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 630 students, KIPP University Prep High School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 630 students would have about 45 teachers, so KIPP University Prep High School has 4.7 fewer.

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

Location

KIPP University Prep High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Cooper Academy at Navarro, 0.9 miles away in San Antonio ISD. Within 10 miles there are 83 other high schools, 41 of them within 5 miles.

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