Grades Served5-8
Founded 2020
Students307
Teachers 28
Founded in 2020, KIPP Soul Academy is the newest and 11th KIPP Atlanta school to open. We currently educate grades 5-8 and currently in our last founding school year, which means we are fully grown in 2022-2023! We take pride in ourselves, our history, and our community and our school culture and values are a direct reflection. Our grade levels are rooted in our core values: Fifth Grade – Values, Sixth Grade – Community, Seventh Grade – African Culture, Eighth Grade – Activism.
At KIPP Soul Academy, our students are on a path of self-discovery and we empower them to use their voices for the issues that matter to them. KIPP Soul Academy shares a campus with KIPP Soul Primary School (currently grades K-4), and we are a fully grown K-8 campus this 2022-2023 school year.
Mr. Emanuel Mathis serves as principal of grades K-8 at KIPP Soul Campus. An Atlanta native, Mr. Mathis has a passion to provide an exceptional educational and extracurricular experience that can propel all Atlanta students into living a choice filled life. Since joining the KIPP family in 2011, Mr. Mathis has worked in three different KIPP Atlanta schools as a learning specialist, math teacher, athletic director, basketball coach, instructional coach, and assistant principal.
Prior to joining KIPP Atlanta Schools, Mr. Mathis taught four years in the Newton County public school system. Mr. Mathis earned his B.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia where he was also a member of the men’s basketball team.
At KIPP Soul Academy, we offer the following extracurricular activities:
Our students’ academic results continue to prove what is possible in education.
KIPP Atlanta Schools was awarded Accredited status by the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC), and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI)