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KIPP is a national network of public charter schools whose stated mission is to help underserved students enroll in and graduate from college. KIPP began exclusively as a middle school program in 1994, but began expanding into the elementary and high school levels in 2004. By 2009-2010, KIPP was educating students in grades prekindergarten through 12, and as of 2014-2015 the network included 162 elementary, middle, and high schools serving 59,495 students. As the KIPP network continues to grow, it faces the challenge of building a pipeline of leaders to effectively serve more students and schools. In 2010, the KIPP Foundation was awarded a five-year, $50 million Investing in Innovation (i3) scale-up grant by the US Department of Education. The foundation used the i3 grant to scale up its network with the aim of sustaining KIPP's positive impacts - specifically by bolstering its leadership pipeline - while doubling the number of students served from 27,000 to over 55,000 by 2014-2015.

This report analyses KIPP data for evidence of positive impacts and outcomes for students. Findings include: KIPP middle schools have positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts in math, reading, science, and social studies; KIPP high schools have positive and significant impacts on measures related to school assistance in planning for college, including the frequency of discussions about college at school, students being more likely to have in-depth discussions at school about how to pay for college, and teacher or counselor assistance with planning for college; KIPP high schools have a positive and significant effect on college preparation activities undertaken by students, as well as on whether the student applied to at least one college or university by spring of senior year; and students with the opportunity to attend a KIPP high school enroll in schools more likely to offer advanced placement (AP) or international baccalaureate courses.

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