Alphabet Soup
This assessment administered every spring in the state of Maryland measures student proficiency in literacy, science, and math.
What is the MCAP (Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program)?
This is an application round offered at many universities that means that if you're accepted that you've committed to attending that particular school.
What is Early Decision?
Founding Executive Director of KIPP Baltimore, formerly Executive Director of MD CAN who went on to work in the Trump Administration Department of Education
Who is Jason Botel?
This is the first school year in which enrolled KIPP students will have access to dedicated school libraries on campus.
What is SY24-25?
This survey is administered to staff in all KIPP regions every fall and winter through and measures staff sentiment and use of best practices in KIPP schools and regions
What is the TNTP survey?
This acronym refers to students who receive specially designed instruction to support their advanced learning needs.
What is GAL (Gift and Advanced Learners)?
Offered every summer to rising seniors, this program helps students prepare for the post-secondary application process and gives them the chance to earn a college credit.
What is Countdown to College (CTC)?
Founding Principal of KIPP Harmony Academy and currently KIPP Baltimore CAO
Who is Natalia Adamson?
These are the three projects being funded by our capital campaign
What are PreK classrooms, Libraries, and Restroom renovations?
Reflecting KIPP Ujima Village Academy’s crest and mascot, this is the moniker used to identify students’ intended graduation year.
What is Pride/are Prides?
This refers to a data set from assessments given early in the school year to determine a student’s starting rates of proficiency
What is BOY data (Beginning of Year)?
KIPP’s post-secondary application process in which students create and then apply to a balanced list of programs that are personal, academic, and financial fits.
What is Match?
In 2015, the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center partnered with KIPP to establish this innovative school-based health center.
What is the Rales Health Center?
How many stars does KIPP aim to achieve on the Maryland State School Report Card by 2027?
Four (4) stars
Adopted in 2021, this is the national KIPP tagline.
What is “Together, a future without limits"?
This assessment, given in the fall, winter and spring at KIPP Baltimore, measures students' acquisition of foundational literacy skills
What is DIBELS® (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills)?
Modified each year, this is the group of high schools that our High School Placement Counselor recommends to our 8th graders during the High School Placement process?
What are Target High Schools?
Following a robust community needs assessment, this program was renamed “KIPP Forward”
What is KIPP Through College?
Learning Environment, School Culture, Talent & Equity, Alumni Success
What are the 4 KIPP Baltimore Strategic Priorities?
The location of the first two KIPP schools
What are Houston TX and Bronx, NY?
This process, authored by the US government, is used by most colleges to determine how much financial aid a student qualifies for.
What is FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)?
The percentage of KIPP Baltimore alumni who have matriculated to a 2 or 4 year college in the year following their high school graduation
What is 61 percent?
The original home of KIPP Ujima Village Academy into which both schools combined in 2012.
What is the Roland Patterson Building (4701 Greenspring Avenue)?
KIPP has adopted this approach backed by decades of research, focusing on phonics, decoding, and structured literacy to ensure all students gain the skills to read proficiently.
What is the Science of Reading?
The number of students enrolled in public charter schools in Baltimore City.
What is 14,305 or 20%?