Results

In its 7th year of operation, KIPP Bridge has achieved great success, as evidenced by the incredible performance of our students. Despite arriving in the 5th grade performing on a 2nd or 3rd grade level in reading and math, our students outperformed the schools in OUSD and their neighborhood. In the 2005-6 school year, we made enormous strides toward closing the achievement gap as demonstrated by significant gains on the California Standards Test (CST).

On the 2006 California Standards Test, KIPP Bridge 7th and 8th grade students outperformed the district and the state in all content areas: English, Math, Science and Social Studies
On the 2006 California Standards Test, KIPP Bridge 5th grade students outperformed the district in Math and our 6th graders outperformed the district and the state in both Math and Language Arts.
Based on the results of the CST, KIPP Bridge is the highest performing Title I middle school in the Oakland Unified School district and the second highest performing middle school overall in the district.
In May of 2006 KIPP Bridge was named a statewide Title I Academic Achievement Award School.

In addition to our excellent test scores, our students are now demonstrating that they are prepared to attend and achieve in outstanding high schools.

In the fall of 2005, seventeen 8th grade students applied to the A Better Chance program, which finds them spots in the nation's most prestigious high schools. Fifteen of the seventeen were accepted.
Sixty-five percent of KIPP Bridge's first class of graduating 8th grade students are currently attending private and parochial schools. Members of this class are serving as their school’s Freshman student body president, playing the violin in the school symphony, taking Sophomore level math courses, and playing on the school’s baseball and basketball teams The private and parochial schools they attend include:
- The Athenian School
- Bentley School
- Bishop O'Dowd High School
- The College Preparatory School
- The French American International School
- Holy Names High School
- Moreau Catholic High School
- St. Elizabeth High School
- St. Joseph Notre Dame High School

California Standards Test (CST) 2004-05 Results for California KIPP Schools

In the 2004-2005 academic year, KIPP Bridge Academy’s seventh graders (this year’s eighth graders) outperformed the Oakland Unified School District in English language arts and mathematics, as measured by the California Standards Test (CST).

The margin by which these students have outperformed the district has widened. In 2002-2003, KIPP Bridge’s 5 th graders were below the district in English language arts and just slightly above the district in mathematics. In 2004-05, this same cohort had 39% more students scoring proficient or advanced than the district in English language arts, and 56% more scoring proficient or advanced in mathematics.

In the 2004-2005 academic year, KIPP Bridge Academy’s sixth graders (this year’s seventh graders) outperformed the Oakland Unified School District in English language arts and mathematics, as measured by the California Standards Test (CST).

In the 2004-2005 academic year, KIPP Bridge Academy’s fifth graders (this year’s sixth graders) outperformed the Oakland Unified School District in English language arts and mathematics, as measured by the California Standards Test (CST).