KIPP Academy Charlotte, Charlotte | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

This is my 2nd year at KIPP Charlotte Academy. I chose the KIPP brand because of its reputation in New York City where I am originally from. Unfortunately, I’m sorry to say that my experience hasn’t been as great as I had hoped it to be. Let me be clear in saying there are some great teachers at KIPP but my less than pleased experience is in mostly part due to lack of communication and faulty leadership. The school leader is never on campus and as a member of the Parents Alliance; she’s not once made herself available to myself or members of the alliance. The school often times penalizes good students prematurely over minor infractions to be used as an example. Whereas, the students with behavior problems and there are plenty of them; aren’t disciplined at all or not enough. The school has many problem areas but the one I have the biggest problem with is its response to children who don’t adhere to the Parent/Student handbook. The work is vigorous and the expectations are high which I do admire. My daughter is an Honor Roll student and well liked by her peers and teachers. But for us even with the positives of KIPP, the negatives far outweigh them and we are aggressively looking for new middle schools for the 2017-2018 School Year. The parent support is less than 1% of the school body which is desperately heart wrenching. Good Luck!

Parents, make this your last choice. The only good thing from this school is the teachers, the majority of them. Just about everyone outside of the teachers and Mrs. Leah should be pulled, retrained, or replaced; just that simple. Here are some of the thing you will experience: unfairness, lack of follow-up or follow-through, you will get ignored when you’ve called them out on their wrongdoings, and a ton of unprofessionalism. The receptionist will screen your calls via caller id and decide if they will answer your call or not ( so if you have made numerous attempts to reach this school and no answer, chances are they are intentionally ignoring you), they abuse their authority, don’t know how to keep their hands to themselves, don’t know how to talk to your children ( like they won’t come back and inform you); these things I have witnessed. When it comes to facing an issue, they avoid you. I am in the process of removing my children from this school. I always like to allow everyone to prove themselves instead of forming an opinion on other people’s experiences, and I was utterly wrong with this one; I should’ve believed every word. I wish that there was an option for no stars, they’ve earned it honestly! They are hypocrites and want these children to act in a way that they don’t govern themselves.