Results

Are Our Students Staying With Us?

We know that when a school is healthy, students want to return year after year. We are committed to creating schools where all students can thrive, and we closely track student attrition to ensure we’re keeping our students with us and meeting our mission.

KIPP Student Retention Rates

Student attrition data is based on the 209 KIPP schools that were open in the 2017-18 school year. KIPP defines attrition as the percentage of students who leave a school (for reasons other than completing the highest grade or transferring to another KIPP school) in one annual cycle between October 1 of 2017 and October 1 of 2018, which is the date that most states close their enrollment. 

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Are Our Students Progressing and Achieving Academically?

Our goal is to put our students on an academic trajectory toward college readiness. We use a variety of tools to understand student achievement, and look closely at our results to ensure we’re fulfilling our promises to students and families.

Percentage of Students On or Above Grade Level on MAP

Results below show our students’ performance on the norm-referenced Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test.

Elementary School 4th Grade Exiting Performance in Spring 2018

Middle School Cohort (Fall 2014 – Spring 2018)

Percentage of Students Meeting or Exceeding Growth Targets in 2017–18

Across all grades and subjects, the majority of KIPP students are outperforming the national average for annual growth.

Growth targets represent fall-to-spring growth based on NWEA’s MAP assessment.

Percentage of KIPP Classes Outperforming Local Districts & States in 2017–18

Advanced Placement (AP), ACT, and SAT Test Results for KIPP High School Graduating Seniors

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Are Our Students Climbing the Mountain To And Through College

To meet our mission in preparing students to lead choice-filled lives, we follow the progress of our KIPP alumni, examining their rates of high school graduation, as well as college enrollment and college completion.

KIPP Alumni Attainment Rates

*As of fall 2018, an additional 5% of KIPP alumni earned associate’s degrees.

KIPP tracks its rates of high school graduation, college enrollment, and college graduation for all students who either completed 8th grade at a KIPP middle school or graduated from a KIPP high school. For alumni who graduated from KIPP high schools, 45% have completed a four-year degree.

Data above reflects the latest available from the 2017-18 school year.  

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Higher Education Report 2019

Leading up to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, KIPP published a report calling on education leaders, policy makers, higher education institutions, and advocates to commit to drastic changes in the ways we currently support students in college. The report includes five strategies to increase college matriculation and persistence rates for students of color, first-generation college goers, and students from low income families, as well as the latest national college completion data for KIPP schools.

2017 KIPP Alumni Survey

The 2017 KIPP Alumni survey focused on how KIPP alumni experience a sense of belonging in college. The financial difficulties faced by students from low-income families in making it to graduation are well documented, but recently, less tangible factors—like sense of belonging—have also been shown to impact college completion rates. The survey results also show a connection between sense of belonging for KIPP alumni in college and both their mental health and achievement.

College Completion Report 2011

In an effort to demonstrate how our KIPP alumni were faring after they left our schools, we published The Promise of College Completion: KIPP’s Early Successes and Challenges in 2011. This report detailed the college completion rates from the first two KIPP middle schools and offered a clearer picture of the challenges students from low-income communities face on the path to a degree, as well as the factors that help them succeed.

Are We Building a Sustainable People Model?

KIPP Talent Retention Percentages

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Are We Building a Sustainable Financial Model?

Like all public schools, KIPP public charter schools receive funding from federal, state, and local public sources to support the cost of operations. And, like most public schools, KIPP schools also raise private funding to strengthen the impact of programs.

The cost to grow and serve more students varies greatly across our communities. As a result, there is no “one-size-fits-all” business model for providing a high-quality KIPP education.

Our goal for financial sustainability is for KIPP regions to have reliable and renewable financial resources. Financially healthy KIPP regions manage within a budget, accurately forecast revenue needs, ensure they take on only the debt they can afford, have strong internal controls, and prudently save as insurance to weather the unexpected.

For more information, download our financial forms:

• 2019 KIPP Financial Audit
• 2019 KIPP Single Audit
• 2019 KIPP Foundation Form 990

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