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For Students

By choosing KIPP, students make a commitment to excellence with themselves, their parents, teachers, and fellow students. KIPPsters (what we call our students) believe that there are no shortcuts and no excuses. KIPPsters love KIPP because they know that their parents, teachers, school leaders, and classmates are all working together to help them reach their full potential.

At KIPP, we use the motto ’team beats individual.’  Being a KIPPster means being a part of a team and family within your school and also within the overall KIPP network of schools.  KIPPsters have a host of resources available to them to help them reach the top, including dedicated teachers available after hours via cell phone, high school and college placement counselors, alumni support services, extended school days, Saturday school, class field trips, and many extracurriculars.

For Parents

Collaboration with families is essential to our students’ success – it’s woven into the DNA of everything we do.  Through phone calls, emails, home visits, and parent-teacher conferences, KIPP schools regularly communicate with parents about their child’s academic development.  Families are asked regularly to review student work and progress.

At KIPP schools:

  • Parents are encouraged to be involved and to contribute;
  • Teachers have the freedom to innovate and never give up on a child;
  • Students work hard and come to school ready to learn.

We help students learn by:

  • Creating a safe and structured learning environment;
  • Setting clear expectations by requiring that parents, teachers, and students all sign a Commitment to Excellence form;
  • Extending the school day, week and year;
  • Offering extracurricular activities;
  • Organizing exciting end-of-year learning trips;
  • Having teachers available by cell phone after school for homework help;
  • Holding students accountable for behavior as well as academic success.