Overview
KIPP Intrepid Preparatory School opened in 2008 to serve students from the East End of Houston. Intrepid currently serves students in grades five through eight and is led by Christopher Wood. Intrepid's student population is 67% Hispanic, 32% African-American, 1% Caucasian, and 90% low income.
Intrepid serves students from the East End of Houston, including the 77003, 77011, 77012, 77017, 77020, 77023, 77029, and 77087 ZIP codes.
Academics
Each year of middle school at KIPP Intrepid, students will take math, science, social studies and language arts (including reading and writing). Students will also take health class to encourage their physical health, music and other fine arts classes, and at least one foreign language class.
Culture
Mission
At KIPP Intrepid, we prepare our students with the academic skills, intellectual habits, and qualities of character necessary to succeed educationally and personally for the rest of their lives.
Values
Our school values are academics and character. We define academics as the knowledge that our students gain during their time with us and character as what type of people they are and what type of people they are becoming. We rely on eight character strengths to help us teach our students what they are working toward:
- Grit
- Zest
- Social Intelligence
- Self Control
- Hope
- Love
- Gratitude
- Humor
Scientists that we admire have found that successful people all over the world have these 8 strengths, and we want our children to be as successful as possible, which is why we value more than just academics.
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