# KIPP CLIMB ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480026413278`
- **School name**: KIPP CLIMB ACADEMY
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77017
- **Address**: 8805 FERNDALE
- **District**: KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (LEAID `4800264`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.66808, -95.25973
- **Phone**: (832)230-0578

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 679
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 79

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 54.4% proficient — 388 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 26.3% proficient, 7.5% advanced — 388 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 46.4% proficient — 194 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 47.8% proficient — 113 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 44.4% proficient — 81 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 24.2% proficient, 6.7% advanced — 194 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 27.4% proficient, 6.2% advanced — 113 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 19.8% proficient, 7.4% advanced — 81 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 62.4% proficient — 194 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 67.3% proficient — 113 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 55.6% proficient — 81 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 28.4% proficient, 8.2% advanced — 194 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 32.7% proficient, 13.3% advanced — 113 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 22.2% proficient, 1.2% advanced — 81 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.6% (114 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (8 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 81.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 15.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.8% — 40 students
- **English Learners**: 24.9% — 206 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,622
- **Federal share**: $1,160
- **State + local share**: $8,463
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 453
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,371,925
- **Federal share**: 19.8%
- **State share**: 75.2%
- **Local share**: 5.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,284,057

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,321
- **Poverty rate**: 18.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.6%
- **Unemployment**: 16.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,121
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.8 miles (GENEVA INDUSTRIES FUHRMANN ENERGY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 76
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.41 miles (7250 BELLFORT ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2192 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KIPP PRIME COLLEGE PREPARATORY** — 0.0 mi away, 0.88% (this school: 0.97%)
- **BONNER EL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.97%)
- **TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON HOBBY** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.97%)
- **YES PREP - HOBBY** — 0.8 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 0.97%)
- **STEVENSON MIDDLE** — 0.9 mi away, 0.45% (this school: 0.97%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/kipp-climb-academy-houston/workforce

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