This month the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) released results of an ongoing study of 22 of its 82 schools done by Mathmatica Policy Research, Inc. The study examines student characteristics and achievement in the 22 schools as was designed to estimate KIPP’s effect on students.

Major findings include:

• For the vast majority of KIPP schools studied, impacts on students’ state assessment scores in mathematics and reading are positive, statistically significant, and educationally substantial.
• Prior achievement of students entering KIPP schools varies, but KIPP schools most often enroll students whose average fourth-grade achievement is lower than the district-wide average.
• Grade repetitions are consistently elevated at KIPP middle schools as compared to district public schools, particularly in fifth and sixth grades.
• Impacts for large majorities of the 22 KIPP middle schools included in the study are positive both in reading and math in all four years after students enter KIPP schools.

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