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About KIPP Baltimore

Organization Information

Founded in 2002, KIPP Baltimore operates joyful, academically excellent schools and alumni support programming that prepare students with the skills and confidence necessary to successfully pursue individual pathways to careers of highest aspiration. KIPP Baltimore enrolls approximately 1,500 kindergarten through eighth grade students in two schools on a shared campus in the former Walbrook High School building in West Baltimore: KIPP Harmony Academy (grades K-5) and KIPP Ujima Village Academy (6-8).  Including our signature KIPP Forward (formerly KIPP Through College) program, we support more than 3,000 current students and alumni.

KIPP Baltimore is part of the national KIPP Public Schools network. KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) began in 1994 with 47 fifth-graders as a college-preparatory program housed within a public middle school in Houston, Texas; today, we are a network of 278 schools, 16,000 educators, and 189,000 students and alumni. All KIPP public charter schools are locally-run, non-profit organizations; each region is governed by a board of directors.

2 Schools

On One Campus K-8

70% of Kippsters

From Park Heights and Rosemont Communities

1,700+ Alumni

70% College Matriculation Rate

1,500 Students

99% Identify as Black/African-American Descent
83.8% of Students Eligible for Free and Reduced Meals (FARMS)
14% of Students with Learning Needs (504 and IEP)
20% of Middle School Students Enrolled in Advanced Classes

ONE KIPP: A VISION OF TOGETHERNESS:

Our Brand Values

  • Affirmation

    Every student walks through the doors of school bearing gifts. We support our students to see those gifts, then build the skills and confidence they need to thrive.

  • Joyful Excellence

    We challenge our students’ minds while nurturing their joy of learning.

  • Community

    We join together with families and communities, partnering to pursue the more just world we all want to see.

  • Collective Power

    Together, our students are lighting ever-wider paths to opportunity and change. For themselves. For all those who will follow them. And for us all.

  • Optimism

    Together, we are working toward a just world with no limits, and it starts at our schools.

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