What are the retention rates for KIPP students who complete the school year but are not yet ready to move on to the next grade level? How do these rates compare to those at traditional public schools?
The KIPP Foundation does not collect or track information about KIPP students who are asked to repeat grades. However, the 2010 Mathematica report found that KIPP retained students at a higher rate than neighboring public schools. The researchers wrote that this “capture[s] KIPP’s philosophy that students should be promoted to the next grade level only after they have demonstrated mastery of the current grade material.” When we calculate achievement gains at KIPP schools in our annual Report Card, we only track gains of those students who are part of a ‘matched cohort’ of students. For example, in the 2008 KIPP Report Card, we reported the gains of students who started KIPP in fifth grade and finished KIPP in eighth grade.
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