KIPP Empower Academy Results

KIPP Empower Academy aims to ensure that our students never face the achievement gap. Through an active, engaging, and rigorous learning process, our teachers cultivate critical thinking and problem solving skills in our students that will serve them for the entirety of their education. According to the nationally norm-referenced SAT-10 test, by the end of the 2011-12 school year, at least 96 percent of students performed at or above the national average in both reading and math. 

KIPP Empower Academy Student Achievement

Percent (%) of students scoring at or above the national average 

KIPP Empower Academy’s kindergartners showed impressive mastery of all subjects by the end of the 2011-12 school year. At the beginning of the school year in fall 2011, 39 percent of KEA kindergartners were reading at a proficient or advanced level as measured by the STEP literacy assessment. By the end of the year, 91 percent were proficient or advanced on the STEP.

Kindergarten Student Growth: Fall 2011 to Spring 2012

Percent (%) of students reading in each proficiency band | Kindergarten

Student growth in kindergarten is sustained throughout first grade, with 91 percent of students performing at or above grade level in reading.

STEP Reading Assessment

Percent (%) of students reading in each proficiency band | Kindergarten and First Grade