KIPP New Orleans Schools

KIPP New Orleans Schools (KNOS) is the division of KIPP Schools active in the New Orleans metropolitan area.

By 2016 it became the charter school operator with the largest number of schools. Greg Larose of The Times Picayune wrote that KIPP New Orleans is "in many ways the symbol of the revolution", meaning the educational reforms in New Orleans that occurred post-Hurricane Katrina (2005).[1] In 2019 Della Haselle of the same publication described KIPP New Orleans as "one of the city's oldest and biggest charter school operators".[2]

Circa 2014 KIPP New Orleans established KIPP Through College, a program for students who attended KIPP schools.[1]

Student performance

As of 2016, 61% of the newly graduated students of KIPP New Orleans were to attend tertiary educational institutions or enter the United States Armed Forces.[1]

Schools
High schools
K-8
  • KIPP Believe - Formed in 2019 by the merger of KIPP Believe Primary (KBP) and KIPP Believe College Prep (KBCP).[3] It occupies a 42-classroom, 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m2) building near Gentilly with a capacity of 756 students; it was built for $23.5 million. In 2018 it had 680 students.[4]
    • KIPP Believe was scheduled to go into the Benjamin Banneker Elementary School building in 2014.[5] In 2015 bats were discovered in the Banneker building, so KIPP Believe temporarily moved to the former Our Lady of the Rosary School.[6] KIPP Believe College Prep was to be at the Dunbar School for a period before moving to the McNair School.[7]
  • KIPP Leadership - Includes KIPP Leadership Primary and KIPP Leadership Academy.[8]
  • KIPP Morial - Includes KIPP Morial Primary and KIPP Morial Middle[9] There was a plan where KIPP Believe Elementary was to move into the Johnson Elementary School building while KIPP Believe Middle was to move to McNair School.[10]
5-8
  • KIPP Central City Academy - Established in 2007.[11]
PreK-5

References
  1. LaRose, Greg (2016-10-11). "Higher Ground: KIPP strives to lift New Orleans grads past their struggles". The Times Picayune. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  2. "KIPP New Orleans given OK to take over high school at center of grade-fixing scandal". The Times Picayune. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  3. "About". KIPP Believe. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  4. "KIPP Believe moves into new $23.5 million campus near Gentilly". The Times Picayune. 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  5. Morris, Robert (2014-08-01). "KIPP Believe Primary prepares to move into former Benjamin Banneker campus". Uptown Messenger. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  6. Morris, Robert (2015-03-05). "Bats force KIPP school out of former Banneker campus in Riverbend". Uptown Messenger. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  7. Morris, Robert (2014-08-07). "Building assignments for KIPP Believe, Lafayette Academy announced in the Carrollton area". Uptown Messenger. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  8. "About us". KIPP Leadership. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  9. "About". KIPP Morial. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  10. Morris, Robert (2014-08-07). "Building assignments for KIPP Believe, Lafayette Academy announced in the Carrollton area". Uptown Messenger. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  11. "KIPP Central City Academy". KIPP. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  12. "KIPP Central City Primary". KIPP. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  13. "About". KIPP East. Retrieved 2020-05-27.

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