# KIPP POLARIS ACADEMY FOR BOYS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480026412173`
- **School name**: KIPP POLARIS ACADEMY FOR BOYS
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77078
- **Address**: 9636 MESA DR
- **District**: KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (LEAID `4800264`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.85193, -95.26066
- **Phone**: (832)230-0567

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 341
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: C
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 77

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 65.8% proficient — 73 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 23.3% proficient, 12.3% advanced — 73 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 61.9% proficient — 868 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 29.1% proficient, 9.1% advanced — 868 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 57.2% proficient — 320 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 45.3% proficient — 86 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 57.1% proficient — 77 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 61.9% proficient — 84 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 24.4% proficient, 6.9% advanced — 320 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 26.7% proficient, 4.7% advanced — 86 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 19.5% proficient, 2.6% advanced — 77 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 27.4% proficient, 8.3% advanced — 84 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.9% proficient — 320 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 79.5% proficient — 73 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 65.1% proficient — 86 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 62.8% proficient — 78 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.2% (129 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 66.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 32.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 36 students
- **English Learners**: 30.8% — 107 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,654
- **Federal share**: $1,406
- **State + local share**: $10,248
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 339
### 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**: $35,199
- **Poverty rate**: 40.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.4%
- **Unemployment**: 24.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,291
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 33.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.2 miles (NORTH CAVALCADE STREET)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.41 miles (9929 HOMESTEAD ROAD)

### 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**: 13.1104 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

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