Shifting population demographics in Northampton and Halifax Counties, tightening local and national markets for educators and teachers post-pandemic, and evolving legislative priorities for public education in our state require we organize across our two campuses in ENC differently so that we guarantee the KIPP story will continue even stronger than it ever has.
Unifying for Our Next 25
KIPP NC is making strategic changes to our operating model in Eastern NC to ensure we continue to deliver on the promises we made to our families for the next 25 years. These shifts are in an effort to ensure that our story—and the impacts we have on lives daily—will continue well into this century.
Honoring Our Past, Securing Our Future
KIPP in Eastern NC was founded on the belief that public education must nurture in students the skills, character, and knowledge necessary to succeed at the colleges of their choice, strengthen their communities, and fight for social justice.
For the past 25 years, KIPP has been synonymous with love, care, and exceptional student outcomes. Since 2001, we have nurtured a lot of brilliance and created countless moments of homeplace, be they in classrooms, on athletic fields, or at college commencement ceremonies.
KIPP has been an important institution in the life of eastern North Carolina for the past quarter century. We aspire to stay that way for a quarter century more.
Two Campuses, One KIPP
Instead of operating as two separate, distinct entities, we will unify as One KIPP across two campuses starting in the 2025-26 school year: Our unified K-8 operations will be on one campus (Gaston), and our high school operations will be on the other (Halifax).
Our Unified Leaders
These exceptional leaders—known by all of you and our students—will ensure that the KIPP you know and love today will continue under our unified operations next year and beyond.
Organizing for the Next 25 Years
For the past decade, we have operated as two separate campuses in Halifax and Gaston separated by 12 miles of interstate. This has led our two campuses to compete for precious resources—students, families, teachers, staff, and funding—with each other.
While our student enrollment numbers and staffing models are sound, keeping them that way will get harder and harder to do if we continue to operate as two separate K-8 campuses.
We are unifying our two campuses to act as one band, one sound to face down challenges and take advantage of the many opportunities going together will bring—all in an effort to raise our student achievement higher than ever before.
We. Are. KIPP. Strong.
Our greatest strength over the past 25 years has been our people—our students who learn and grow in our classrooms, our families who entrust us with their most valuable assets, our alums who represent the very best of our collective mission, and our staff who teach, feed, care for, drive, and lead the brilliance of our students.
We are eager to protect and organize that strength in a unified, sustainable way to ensure that KIPP continues to play a critical role in ENC for the next 25 years.
Co-Creating and Learning More
Over the next year, we will begin organizing and co-creating our unified future together. We look forward to welcoming every student in our care today onto our unified campuses in August 2025. They will be welcomed back by the same familiar faces that are a part of your KIPP family today.
Fall 2024
We will begin to share the vision of unifying our Halifax and Gaston operations under one KIPP umbrella. We will host town halls and other opportunities for staff and families to learn more and begin to help co-create our shared future together.
Winter/Spring 2025
We will begin to engage our communities on our new, unified identity and shared culture. We will answer collectively what we will call our unified endeavor.
Summer 2025
Our classrooms are moved into their new homes across the Halifax and Gaston campuses. Necessary campus improvements are made across campuses. The 2025-26 teams are welcomed back for summer training. Student orientations are held.
Fall 2025 (and Beyond!)
Classes begin across our unified campuses. Planning begins on major campus improvements across our two campuses. Modular units on the Gaston campus begin to be replaced, and campus beautification efforts commence.
Do you have specific questions that have not yet been answered? Do you have an idea on how to help make our unification efforts a success?
Fill out our unification survey here.
Optional town halls for families begin the Week of October 28. Please refer to our communications for Friday, October 25, for more information.
We will frequently update our Unification Family FAQs throughout the next year. You can access those FAQs in both English and in Spanish.