Middle School Highlights | High School Highlights | Elementary School Highlights

About the Report Card

The KIPP Report Card is a direct reflection of our commitment to transparency and accountability of student results and achievement in our schools. Each year, with the assistance of our schools, the KIPP Foundation gathers and assembles the data necessary to communicate our results internally and to a national audience. The Report Card features:

• School Profile Pages: Includes student enrollment and demographics, number of teachers, per-pupil revenues, state accountability information and facilities information.
• School Results Pages: Contains results from two sets of student tests: state exams required of all public schools, and nationally norm-referenced exams required of all KIPP schools serving grades one through eight.

Middle School Highlights

The majority of KIPP schools (more than 85 percent) are middle schools. The KIPP middle school model has a proven track record of increasing student achievement, as measured by both national norm-referenced exams and state criterion-referenced exams:

National exams:

• The average KIPP student who stays with KIPP for four years starts fifth grade at the 40th percentile in mathematics and the 32nd percentile in reading.
• After four years in KIPP, these same students are performing at the 82nd percentile in math and the 60th percentile in reading. View pop-up graph of results

State Exams:

• Approximately two-thirds of KIPP fifth grade classes outperformed their local districts in reading/English language arts (67 percent) and in mathematics (63 percent) at the end of their first year with KIPP.
• After four years at KIPP, 100 percent of KIPP eighth grade classes outperformed their district averages in both reading/English language arts and in math. View pop-up graph of results

High School Highlights

Of the seven high schools in the KIPP network as of summer 2008, three of those have been open long enough to post achievement results, as featured in the 2007 KIPP Report Card. KIPP high school students focus on college-readiness preparatory and placement exams, such as the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT), the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), and subject-specific Advanced Placement (AP) tests. State criterion-referenced exams are provided in subjects and/or grades tested as required by each individual state. Highlights of the performance of KIPP’s high school students include the following:

• Ninety-nine percent of KIPP Houston High School eleventh grade students passed the state test in math, English language arts, science, and social studies, outperforming both the district and state passing rates in those subjects.
• Ninety-five percent of KIPP Delta Collegiate ninth and tenth graders passed the state test in Geometry, far exceeding the performance of the state and district.
• In the spring of 2008, KIPP Houston High School graduated its first class of seniors—with 96 percent going on to four-year colleges and universities in the fall.

Elementary School Highlights

Of the six elementary schools in the network as of summer 2008, two have been open long enough to post achievement results, as featured in the 2007 KIPP Report Card. Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students at KIPP are performing at or above grade level as indicated by various “early learner” tests focusing on key literacy areas. Although not conclusive, these results suggest that KIPP’s elementary students are establishing a solid foundation that will help them stay on track through elementary school, middle school, high school, and on to college.