KIPP San Jose Collegiate School

My son is entering 9th grade this year and we couldn't be more happier and please with the school. He has been enrolled at KIPP Heartwood Academy since 5th grade. My son understand that he need to be at his best all the time. There are many excellent students enrolled here and they are setting academic goals higher and higher each year. We are fully understand that this high school is still new and very limit in activities that they are offering, but we have complete faith in KIPP to guide our son to college and beyond. We love the school and we know that our child is safe and in good hands. Our son future will be brighter than any one of us could dream of. Thank you KIPP teachers & principal for their caring.
--Submitted by a parent

My Child has been with KIPP since 8th grade and is now a freshman at KIPP Collegiate. I am very unhappy with this school. Students get in trouble for the most petty things, and if teachers feel the need to put them on in school suspencion part of their punishment includes the student having to wear their shirt and coats inside out for how many days they are in trouble. I find this absolutely humiliating,degrating, and in my eyes this is Hazing! Funny they are so adament about using proper language when twice this year we have had incidents where several teachers cursed at the students. When confrunted in a parent teacher meeting they took no responsability for their actions and if fact tried to deny it happening. This is not a school, it's a boot camp where teachers bully students and demand respect not even they practice. The school hires inexperienced teachers who have no concept of how to work with teenagers, they don't have the patience to understand the challenges youth face now days. In result we are looking for a new school for our child. Good Luck if you decide to place your child here, my advise, ask lots of questions and involve yourself as much as possible.
--Submitted by a parent

My son currently attends Kipp SJC. I have seen a positive outcome of his attending this excellent school. The teachers are very involved and they know every student and parents name. I feel so welcome and love that my son is doing great in school!!!
--Submitted by a parent

I'm only a Freshman at KIPP San Jose Collegiate, and I am sure that i'm going to college. My school motivates me to do better.
--Submitted by a student