Original Research by School Decision on Kipp Poder Public District
KIPP Poder Public District is no longer operating as an enrolling school. The school permanently closed at the end of the 2023-24 school year, making this a historical rather than active entity.
Before closure, KIPP Poder Public served kindergarten through second grade, with a total enrollment of around two hundred students. The student body was almost exclusively Hispanic, and the district reported a chronic absenteeism rate that placed it in the bottom quartile among Los Angeles County's districts. Per-pupil spending was comparatively high, in the upper range across the county.
The district operated as a single-site charter school. State assessment data and proficiency measures were not available, so student academic outcomes cannot be characterized from the data on hand. No graduation rate appears because the school served only early elementary grades, a band not subject to state testing requirements. Information on free-and-reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, English learner populations, and other enrollment details was not reported.
The closure came as part of a broader contraction within KIPP SoCal, the charter operator, which closed three of its two dozen campuses that year. Publicly reported reasons included declining enrollment, pandemic-related challenges, shrinking school-age populations in the region, facility constraints, and opposition to charter schools. Families who had enrolled at KIPP Poder Public at that time would have needed to identify alternative schools for their children's continuation.
For anyone researching KIPP Poder Public now, the school does not accept new enrollments. Those seeking early elementary options in the Los Angeles area would need to look to currently operating schools in the region.
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