Welcome to KIPP Sunnyside High School by the Founding School Leader.
Welcome to KIPP Sunnyside High School by the Founding School Leader.
Open House at KIPP Sunnyside for prospective Rice Scholars, August 28, 1-2:30pm. Buses will depart from the RMC. Send mail to KIPP Rice Scholar Corps to reserve a seat.
Scholar Application Form docx or pdf
KIPP Houston is proud to announce the opening of its newest high school, KIPP
Sunnyside High School: A School for the Liberal Arts. KIPP Sunnyside High School is
committed to providing a liberal arts education that supports the growth and academic
achievement of all students. Our mission is to develop thoughtful leaders who will advocate
for themselves and others. Through rigorous scholarship in a nurturing environment, our
graduates will be empowered to take ownership of their lives and attain the highest degree of
success in college and beyond.
We open our doors in August 2010 beginning with the 9th grade and will grow an additional grade each year. We join a nationwide network of KIPP high schools and will build on the success of our sister school, KIPP Houston High School (ranked 16 in US News and World Report). Our students derive from Houston's historic African-American communities of Third Ward and Sunnyside and will continue their path towards college following their tenure at KIPP Liberation College Prep and KIPP Spirit College Prep.
Mr. Shannon L. Wheatley
Founding School Leader
KIPP Sunnyside High School
A School for the Liberal Arts
11000 Scott Street
Houston, Texas 77047
(832) 633-1465
Adara Robbins is a sophomore at Rice University and is originally from Southwest Florida, where she attended a charter public high school. She's majoring in Sociology and minoring in Poverty, Justice & Human Capabilities - when she's not playing women's flag football or baking cupcakes for her friends. She's a Rice Health Advisor, Orientation Week co-advisor, past trip coordinator for an Alternative Spring Break trip to Slidell, Louisiana, and a Rice tour guide through the Student Admissions Council. Adara is immensely grateful for the educational opportunities she's received in her lifetime and believes those opportunities should be extended to all. She is so excited to be working with this program and so inspired by the energy, vision, and compassion of everyone involved.
Lilian Nwora is currently a sophomore student athlete at
Rice University in Midtown Houston.
Prior to her Rice education, Lilian graduated from The Kinkaid School for High School, and prior to
that graduated from the original KIPP Academy Middle School. Lilian is currently studying Chemical
Engineering with a minor in Business at Rice University, with the intention to
become a practicing Engineer and/or Lawyer. Lilian, as mentioned above, is a student athlete and is a member of
Rice Women's Track and Field , a member of RASA (Rice African's Student Association),
BSA (Black Student Association), CSA (Catholic Student Association), IMPACT leadership conference participant,
and is also a Rice Student Lunch Host just to name a few. This fall Lilian will be an orientation week advisor
to incoming freshman at her college as well as during the year. Lilian is more than thrilled to be working with
such an amazing team while at the same time giving back to a system of schools that gave so much to her!
Kristen Gagalis is a junior at Rice University where she is majoring in Sociology and minoring in Poverty, Social Justice, and Human Capabilities. Originally from Winchester, Massachusetts, Kristen has found in Houston a new place to call home and is excited and honored become part of the KIPP Sunnyside High School community. In addition to being a Rice Health Advisor, Rice Tour Guide, Orientation Week advisor, women's flag football player and member of her residential college's cabinet, Kristen spent much of her last semester helping establish the Rice Transfer Student Association. Kristen spent this past summer interning at Girls Incorporated in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was so inspired by the young women she met there and by her coursework at Rice that she was thrilled at the chance to get invovled in urban education through the KIPP Rice Scholar Corps. Kristen continues to be amazed each step of the way by the incredible team working on this program, and is impassioned by this new and expansive opportunity for collaboration between Rice and KIPP.