Grades Served5-8
Founded 2009
Students399
Teachers 31
Founded in 2009, KIPP STRIVE Academy was the third KIPP Atlanta school to open. KIPP STRIVE Academy connects Atlanta’s Historic West End and Westview neighborhoods and seeks to build on the enduring legacy of education and activism in the community. STRIVE stands for Success Through Rigorous Instruction, Virtue, and Enrichment – a vision shared by students and staff alike. Holding fast to the belief that education comprises both academics and character, KIPP STRIVE is grounded in its REACH values (Respect, Enthusiasm, Achievement, Citizenship, and Hard Work). The school’s commitment to world-class instruction raises academic expectations to a higher level of teaching and learning. The belief in a calm and positive environment lays the foundation for relationships that empower with love and joy, grant mutual respect and dignity, and instill trust that extends for a lifetime. Students are further enriched through the arts, sojourns to landmarks of the civil rights movement across the South, and literacy initiatives that lift their voices and elevate their stories. KIPP STRIVE Academy proves that all students can thrive beyond measure as change-agents for a better tomorrow.
KIPP STRIVE Academy shares a campus with KIPP STRIVE Primary School (grades K-4), offering a full K-8 academic experience.
Mr. Emanuel Mathis serves as principal of grades K-8 at KIPP STRIVE 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 STRIVE 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)
