An equity score of 77/100 ranks Kipp Gaston College Preparatory #29 of 297 districts in North Carolina (state average 45). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,871 per pupil, Kipp Gaston College Preparatory ranks #73 of 328 North Carolina districts by per-pupil spending (North Carolina districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,286
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$13,871
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Kipp Gaston College Preparatory operates 1 public schools serving 1,286 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Carolina. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Northampton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,871 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 328 North Carolina districts by per-pupil spending. See how North Carolina compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 6.2% local, 77.3% state, and 16.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 77/100, ranked #29 of 297 in North Carolina against a state average of 45, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (10 AP courses district-wide), a 1143:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 31.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.2% African American, 7.9% Hispanic or Latino, 4.5% White across the district's schools.
Kipp Gaston College Preparatory accounts for 88.9% of all Kipp Gaston College Preparatory student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Kipp Gaston College Preparatory a distant remainder — means Kipp Gaston College Preparatory-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Kipp Gaston College Preparatory reports 97.7% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Kipp Gaston College Preparatory student-counselor ratio is 1143:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Kipp Gaston College Preparatory chronic absenteeism rate is 31.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Kipp Gaston College Preparatory's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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