KIPP San Antonio is growing from three schools to five and beyond, and they need strong leaders inside and outside the classroom.

To help manage this growth, KIPP San Antonio is looking for a Chief Academic Officer to build out the vision for academics, lead, develop, and manage the School Leaders, own the Leadership Pipeline, oversee and integrate assessment and student data, and oversee KIPP Through College. This is an outstanding opportunity for someone who can develop and implement an academic program through our strong School Leaders.

KIPP SA is also on the hunt for a Human Resources Director, Development Director, Real Estate Manager, and LOTS of teachers!

 

For those unfamiliar with KIPP San Antonio or unfamiliar with San Antonio at large, here are a few Fun Facts to bring you up to speed quickly:

KIPP San Antonio

·         Three schools growing to five…and then more

→  KIPP Aspire Academy (MS)– 2003 – 440 students

→  KIPP University Prep (HS) – 2009  – 240 students, growing to 800

→  KIPP Camino Academy (MS) – 2010 – 220 students, growing to 440

→ KIPP Un Mundo Dual Language Academy (ES) – 2012 (coming) – will grow to 600 students

→  KIPP Esperanza Dual Language Academy (ES) – 2013 (coming) – will grow to 600 students

·         Currently writing strategic plan to lay out the next phase of our continued growth

·         Strengthening School Support Team (central office) – Ryan Hudak providing strong leadership bringing his experience with the Broad Residency, New Schools Venture Fund, and Chicago and DC Public Schools

·         HEB Excellence in Education Small District Finalist 2010

·         Highest attendance in San Antonio – 97.8%

·         Consistently top three highest performing 8^th graders in all of San Antonio

·         KIPP University Prep was Exemplary in its very first year

 

San Antonio

·         7^th largest city in the United States and one of the top 10 fastest growing

·         Majority minority – 60% Latino

·         For the last 90 years it has been true that the demographics of San Antonio have been a 10-15 year predictor for the demographics of Texas and that the demographics of Texas have been a 20-25 year predictor for the demographics of the United States.  We are at the forefront of the low-income Latino education challenge/opportunity for the state and for the country. What we do will ripple.

·         Right now San Antonio is falling short of its promise – the rapid growth has left many behind (see the attached “Boom with a View” to get a better picture of this)

o   15 of 16 inner-city high schools labeled “drop out factories” by the Johns Hopkins study

o   Regularly in the top three in dropout rate, adult illiteracy, teen births, and diabetes

·         The good news is that the city leaders have collectively committed to taking on inner-city education, including the top business leaders, funders, and politicians

·         San Antonio welcomed Teach for America’s largest founding corps to San Antonio two years ago

·         This is increasingly fertile territory for the expansion of high performing charters!

Quality of Life

·         Very low cost of living (try the cost of living calculator) and very inexpensive homes (see below)    (check out the back yard on the $175K house!)

·         Average temperature:  50 degrees in winter and 80 in the summer- you can be outside all year!

·         Ample state parks in and around San Antonio include 34 miles of linear parks for biking and running throughout the city

·  Consistently ranked among the top in terms of great places to raise kids

·         No. 9 on Forbes.com list of Best Cities for Young Adults

·         2011 ranked in top 15 Hot Cities for Creative Types by Fast Company Magazine

·         No state income tax

$120K in SA translates to:

·         Boston                  $166K

·         San Fran               $205K

·         DC                          $175K

·         Chicago                $146K

·         Philly                     $158K