KIPP Empower Academy and Watts Learning Center

Watts Learning Center is at the 49th percentile among California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

We have no Scope Score for KIPP Empower Academy this year; its published results are below.

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How do their test results compare?

From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). California: the same grades statewide.

English: Proficient or Advanced

Grades 3–5, spring 2026

KIPP Empower Academy
43%grades 3 and 4Advanced: 17%
Watts Learning Center
35%Advanced: 10%
California
46%Advanced: 24%

Math: Proficient or Advanced

Grades 3–5, spring 2026

KIPP Empower Academy
64%grades 3 and 4Advanced: 34%
Watts Learning Center
39%Advanced: 15%
California
42%Advanced: 21%

Do students show up and stay in class?

Average school: the average California elementary school we score.

Chronically absent

Missed 10% or more of school days · 2025–26 school year

KIPP Empower Academy
29 in 100179 of 610 students
Watts Learning Center
19 in 10070 of 373 students
Average school
17 in 100

Suspended at least once

2025–26 school year

KIPP Empower Academy
0.2%1 of 623 students enrolled at any point in the year
Watts Learning Center
1.6%6 of 382 students enrolled at any point in the year
Average school
1.6%

How did results compare with what the state expected?

The state’s matched growth measure compares each student’s results with what the state expected from their earlier scores.

State growth measure, points vs expected

Spring 2025 · students with scores in both years

KIPP Empower Academy
+7 pts English +21 pts mathGrade 4 · The state calls them Accelerated in English (reading and writing) and Exceptional in math · 93 students
Watts Learning Center
+10 pts English +14 pts mathGrades 4–5 · The state calls both Accelerated · 112 students in English, 111 in math

How are they scored, who runs them, and how big are they?

Percentile among California elementary schools, with the Scope Score

Spring 2026 tests

KIPP Empower Academy
Not available
Watts Learning Center
49th percentileDevelopingScope Score 35

A charter’s authorizer decides whether its charter is renewed when the term ends.

Who runs the school

KIPP Empower Academy
A charter school
Watts Learning Center
A charter school

Charter approved by, and when the current term ends

KIPP Empower Academy
Los Angeles UnifiedTerm ends June 30, 2028
Watts Learning Center
Los Angeles UnifiedTerm ends June 30, 2030

Teachers in their first year

2024–25 school year

KIPP Empower Academy
7%
Watts Learning Center
0%

Average years of teaching experience

2024–25 school year

KIPP Empower Academy
7
Watts Learning Center
17

Size, grades and staffing help you picture the school. A staffing ratio is not class size.

Students per teacher

Public schools: federal school directory, 2024–25 · a staffing ratio, not class size

KIPP Empower Academy
22
Watts Learning Center
28

Grades offered

KIPP Empower Academy
TK–4
Watts Learning Center
TK–5

Sources and definitions

Test results are from California’s state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026: the share of students tested in the level’s grades who scored Proficient or Advanced, per subject. California’s figure is our combination of the state’s published rows for the same grades. A ✓ marks a figure ahead of the others by more than twice the margin of error (on chronic absence, ahead means lower). Chronic absence and suspensions are the California Department of Education’s 2025–26 counts; “chronically absent” means a student missed 10% or more of school days. The absence and suspension references are the average California school we score at these schools’ level, each school counted once. The state growth measure is points above or below what the state expected from these students’ earlier scores, for grades 4–8, from the state’s spring 2025 release. Students per teacher is from the federal school directory, 2024–25, which also lists enrollment: KIPP Empower Academy 588; Watts Learning Center 368. Teacher experience is the California Department of Education’s staffing file for the school year shown (teachers only). A charter’s authorizer is from CDE’s charter term file and its term end from CDE’s Charter School Database.

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