KIPP Bayview Academy

KIPP Bayview Academy is a public charter middle school serving about 167 students in grades 5-8 in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood, operating as its own KIPP Bayview Academy District and serving a community where over 96% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Academically, the school's state test scores are below California averages, but it shows significant strengths in educating specific student groups, ranking at the 60th percentile for African American students and 56th for Hispanic students statewide. The school's performance has been volatile in recent years but improved from the 17th to the 36th percentile last year. A major challenge is chronic student absenteeism, which at 38.8% is double the state average, though similar to other high-needs area schools like Visitacion Valley Middle (44.2%) and Everett Middle (42.5%). Compared to nearby schools with similar student populations, such as Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle, KIPP Bayview performs similarly or slightly better in English and notably better in math.

KIPP Bayview spends significantly more per student—$46,652—than other local middle schools, which typically spend between $20,000 and $31,000. This high level of resources supports a low student-teacher ratio of about 14-to-1. The school shows interesting grade-level patterns, with 6th and 8th graders performing much stronger than 5th and 7th graders. Within a very small radius, there is a wide range of school performance, from higher-performing schools like Lipman Middle to others facing similar challenges, making the local educational landscape quite diverse.