# KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480026412057`
- **School name**: KIPP EXPLORE ACADEMY
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77023
- **Address**: 5402 LAWNDALE ST
- **District**: KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (LEAID `4800264`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.72699, -95.32210
- **Phone**: (832)230-0547

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 756
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 80

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.2% proficient — 490 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.8% proficient, 12.9% advanced — 490 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.6% proficient — 245 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 62.1% proficient — 124 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 75.2% proficient — 121 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 39.2% proficient, 11.8% advanced — 245 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 32.3% proficient, 9.7% advanced — 124 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 46.3% proficient, 14.0% advanced — 121 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.9% proficient — 245 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 72.6% proficient — 124 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 75.2% proficient — 121 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 44.5% proficient, 13.9% advanced — 245 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 37.1% proficient, 9.7% advanced — 124 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 52.1% proficient, 18.2% advanced — 121 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.1% (70 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (2 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 94.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 2.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.5% — 81 students
- **English Learners**: 40.4% — 344 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,003
- **Federal share**: $1,074
- **State + local share**: $8,930
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 851
### 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**: $57,935
- **Poverty rate**: 21.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,063
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.9 miles (MANY DIVERSIFIED INTERESTS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 139
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.34 miles (HOUSTON COATING)

### 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**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KIPP INTREPID PREPARATORY** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **KIPP EAST END H S** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **CARRILLO EL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **EASTWOOD ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **CAGE EL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)

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

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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