Kipp Voyage Academy for Girls, Houston TX

Original Research by School Decision on Kipp Voyage Academy for Girls

KIPP Voyage Academy for Girls is a public charter middle school in Houston, Texas, serving girls in grades five through eight. It sits on Mesa Drive in Houston's 77078 zip code, an area on the east side of the city. The school is part of KIPP Texas Public Schools, a large charter network operating across the state.

The student body is almost entirely Hispanic and Black, and nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school is single-gender by design, which is a structural characteristic parents should weigh as a matter of fit. Enrollment data for students with IEPs or English learner designations was not available in the data provided.

On Texas STAAR assessments, the picture is mixed and worth a close look. Reading and language arts is clearly the school's stronger subject: around sixth grade more than half of students reached proficiency, and that rate climbed again by eighth grade, where a majority of tested students scored proficient. Math tells a different story. Sixth-grade math proficiency sat at roughly a third of students, and seventh-grade math fell well below that. Science proficiency across the grades tested was in the low-to-mid twenties or low thirties. Social studies in eighth grade was very low, with only a small fraction of students reaching the proficient threshold. Compared to districts in Harris County, the school's overall proficiency index sits just below the midpoint of that group. A parent who wants to understand these results more deeply, and especially whether they reflect a school at a particular stage of growth, may want to ask the school directly about its academic support structures.

One important point of context: KIPP Texas' districtwide TEA accountability rating, publicly reported by the organization, rose substantially between 2023 and 2025, moving from a D to a B. That trajectory matters when interpreting a single year of campus-level results.

Also publicly reported: in December 2025, the KIPP Texas board voted to close seven campuses in Austin and San Antonio beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, citing enrollment declines and financial sustainability. These closures do not involve Houston campuses, and the school itself appears to be on stable operational footing, but the network-level consolidation is context a family should hold.

Graduation rate data does not apply here, as the school serves only grades five through eight.

The neighborhood around Mesa Drive is part of Houston's broader eastside. Home values in the surrounding zip code are well below the Texas statewide median and have declined modestly over the past year, making this one of the more affordable residential areas in the Houston metro. Rents run below typical Houston figures as well.

Houston itself is a sprawling, fast-growing city without conventional zoning, which means the character of any given neighborhood can be hard to categorize in the abstract. The metro has led the country in numeric population growth recently, with most of that growth pushing outward into suburban counties. For families considering this school, the east Houston location is not particularly walkable, and car access will be a practical factor for most.

The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no AP or dual-credit data to report. Program-specific offerings beyond the KIPP Texas network's standard model were not available in the data provided.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 24% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 716%

School 16% · District 25% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 47% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 44% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 54% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 20% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 834%

School 34% · District 40% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 89%

School 9% · District 24% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

This schoolKIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income55%Higher-income45%10 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income55%Higher-income78%23 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income34%Higher-income18%16 pp gap