Knippa School, Knippa TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Knippa School

Knippa School is a single-campus district serving pre-kindergarten through grade twelve in the small community of Knippa, in Uvalde County in southwest Texas. Every student in the district, from the youngest pre-K child to graduating seniors, attends this one building. That arrangement is the defining structural fact of the place: a child who enrolls here stays here, and everyone from different grades shares the same hallways, staff, and community events.

Enrollment is modest for a school covering this full span of grades, and the upper grades are noticeably smaller than the lower ones, which is typical of rural single-campus districts where some families make different choices for high school. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial white minority and a small number of students identifying as Asian or Black. Roughly four in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate that places Knippa in the lower-to-middle range of economic need compared to what you see at many rural Texas schools. Data on English learner and special education populations was not reported in the source material, so a parent with questions about those services should ask the school directly.

On Texas STAAR assessments, Knippa School's overall proficiency index places it at the top of the four districts in Uvalde County, which is a genuine strength worth naming. Looking at the 2024-25 results by subject and grade, the reading and language arts picture is broadly encouraging. Third graders posted strong reading proficiency, eighth graders were especially strong, and results across the middle grades were solid, with one softer spot in seventh grade ELA. Math is more variable. Third and seventh graders performed well, fourth and sixth grade results were in the moderate range, and fifth grade math was the clearest area of concern. Science followed a similar pattern: eighth grade results were reasonable, but fifth grade science proficiency was low, and a parent may want to ask the school what supports are in place in that transitional year. Social studies was tested only at eighth grade, where results were in the moderate range, with a notable gap between the share meeting grade level and the much smaller share reaching the masters level. Overall across subjects, nearly all students are approaching grade level, which reflects a broad floor of basic exposure, but the share reaching the highest performance tier is considerably smaller, which is where the real instructional challenge sits.

Trend data is limited to a single reported year, so there is no multi-year trajectory available. It is not possible from this data to say whether results are improving, holding, or declining.

Knippa School serves grades nine through twelve, so graduation rate data would ordinarily apply. No graduation rate was available for this school in the source data, and chronic absenteeism data was also missing. A parent interested in those outcomes should request them from the district.

The data did not include information about AP courses, dual credit, career and technical programs, or extracurricular offerings. For a school of this size and setting, those questions matter a great deal for a high schooler thinking about college or workforce preparation, and families should ask directly about what is available in the upper grades.

The locale brief for Knippa returned no usable detail about the community itself, and the district brief found no confirmed recent changes to report. Knippa is a rural unincorporated community in Uvalde County, and the school is the central institutional presence in that setting.

For a family whose priority is a small, community-rooted environment where a child will know every teacher and classmate from pre-K through graduation, Knippa School offers exactly that. The academic results are competitive within Uvalde County, with genuine strengths in reading at multiple grade levels and real questions in fifth grade math and science that are worth exploring further.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=90%Cohort of 33 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,779 schools plotted. 59 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 371%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 31 pts above state median

Grade 461%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 39%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 653%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 19 pts above state median

Grade 768%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 41 pts above state median

Grade 883%

School 83% · District 83%

▲ 41 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 386%

School 86% · District 86%

▲ 40 pts above state median

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 18 pts above state median

Grade 571%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 682%

School 82% · District 82%

▲ 30 pts above state median

Grade 756%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 7 pts above state median

Grade 892%

School 92% · District 92%

▲ 37 pts above state median

Science

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 35%

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 867%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 25 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 869%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 45 pts above state median

This schoolKNIPPA ISD, 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 3Lower-income78%Higher-income100%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income57%Higher-income73%16 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income64%Higher-income76%12 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income70%Higher-income88%18 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income30%Higher-income73%43 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income90%Higher-income94%4 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income61%Higher-income90%29 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income43%Higher-income73%30 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income36%Higher-income41%5 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income30%Higher-income63%33 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income60%Higher-income73%13 pp gap