Summary:
KIPP Tulsa Middle School College Prep and KIPP Tulsa High School University Prep serve grades 6–8 and 9–12, respectively, with 274 and 249 students. Both schools have elevated chronic absenteeism: in 2025–2026, it was 35% at the middle school and 42% at the high school, compared with 16% statewide. The clearest shared academic concern is math: all-grades proficiency was 6% at the middle school and 2% at the high school, versus 25% statewide. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their schoolwide results do not support a fair overall ranking of one against the other.
The high school stands out for graduation, while the middle school has a notable grade-level bright spot. In 2024–2025, high school graduation was 93%, compared with 78% statewide. At the middle school, eighth-grade ELA proficiency reached 21%, just above the state’s 20%; it was the only reported 2025–2026 grade-level result above the state rate. On all-grades results, however, both schools were below state proficiency in every reported subject: the middle school was 15 points below the state in ELA and 5 points below in science, while the high school was 8 points below in ELA, 15 in science, and 9 in U.S. History. High school math was the lowest reported result, at 2% versus 25% statewide.
Recent test trends diverged: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the middle school’s ELA, math, and science rates fell by 8, 5, and 3 points, while the high school rose by 6 points in ELA, 9 in science, and 5 in U.S. History; its math rate stayed at 2%. SchoolDigger rankings also moved in opposite directions: the middle school went from the 26th percentile (272nd of 369; 1 star) to the 14th (326th of 378; 1 star), while the high school improved from the 4th percentile (444th of 463) to the 10th (414th of 462). For context, the 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were 15.1 at the middle school and 16.3 at the high school; both reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, at 92% and 90%, respectively.
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