KIPP+Academy+New+York

This is the original New York KIPP school. KIPP's report card that they made says 4% attrition, but when I look at New York State report cards for the students who began in 2005/2006, it looks a lot different. 2006 5th graders 66 2007 6th graders 60 2008 7th graders 54 2009 8th graders 51 2010 9th graders 34 (other things could explain this big drop, like maybe some got scholarships to go to private high schools)

There were 203 5th, 6th, and 7th graders in 2009 There were 192 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in 2010, so lost 11 students net. But 8 were from the 30 that had disabilities. Also, followed class that began 5th grade in 2006. Started with 72 students, 44 girls and 28 boys in 5th grade. In 2010 when they were 8th graders, was 47 girls and 16 boys. So they lost AT LEAST 12 students, which is 17%. Then, unless three of those boys had sex-change operations, they filled in with other students. So the 63 students who did well on the 8th grade tests were not the same students as the 72 who took the 5th grade tests.