KIPP Report Card
KIPP believes in transparency and accountability in the reporting of student achievement results. Each year, KIPP produces and distributes a KIPP Report Card, which provides achievement results for all KIPP schools on state and nationally norm-referenced exams.
KIPP released the 2007 Report Card in April of 2008. For the first time this year, the Report Card is now available online at http://reportcard.kipp.org. Registration is free and simple, requiring only a username and a password that the user creates.
Independent Reports
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., has been awarded a contract of approximately $4 million to evaluate the impact of KIPP. This study represents the driving external research focus for KIPP over the next five years. The Atlantic Philanthropies, an organization dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people, provided generous lead funding to make this research possible. The five-year study will examine the impacts of KIPP middle schools on student achievement and other outcomes, how these outcomes compare with students at other schools, and whether the performance of KIPP students indicates that they are on a path toward college. Read more...
To date, KIPP has been the subject of five independent reports that have examined KIPP's effect on student achievement. Those reports have found that students make significant academic gains while at KIPP schools. In a report issued in August, 2005, the Virginia Beach-based Educational Policy Institute (EPI) found that KIPP fifth-grade students made "large and significant gains" as compared to the average for urban public school students.
For a complete list of independent reports on KIPP, go to Independent reports
Middle School Achievement
Each year, KIPP students take both mandatory state exams and national norm-referenced exams. The norm-referenced exams allow us to chart the growth that KIPP students make over time as compared to a national average. This growth is an indication of the progress that students are making on the road to college.
- Nationally Norm-referenced Test Results:
The KIPP middle school model has a proven track record of increasing student achievement. The chart below reflects achievement results for fully grown KIPP middle schools in operation between 2001 and 2007. This group includes students who started in fifth grade at KIPP schools since 2001 and who took an exiting eighth grade spring exam during or before 2007.
- The average KIPP student who has been 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.
- State Test Results:
- In the 2006-07 school year, approximately two-thirds of KIPP fifth grade classes outperformed their local districts in reading/English language arts (67 percent) and in mathematics (63 percent).
- In the 2006-07 school year, fully 100 percent of KIPP eighth grade classes outperformed their district averages in both reading/English language arts and in mathematics.
- More than 93 percent of KIPP classes outperformed their district averages in Algebra I.
Student Mobility
In May of 2008, the KIPP Foundation released a report on student mobility rates and patterns in KIPP schools. This report examines student mobility between the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years for 45 of the 49 KIPP schools in operation during both school years. To view this report, please see Student Mobility in KIPP
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