KIPP Navigate College Prep

As a very small 9-12 campus in San Jose, California, KIPP Navigate College Prep serves 297 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by KIPP Navigate College Prep District. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 65% leaner than typical.

KIPP Navigate College Prep District is the operating authority for KIPP Navigate College Prep, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, KIPP Navigate College Prep logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 18% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, KIPP Navigate College Prep logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), KIPP Navigate College Prep is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mt. Pleasant High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP Navigate College Prep.

KIPP Navigate College Prep operates from a city-core location. KIPP Navigate College Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for KIPP Navigate College Prep typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.