KIPP Texas - Houston

KIPP Unity Primary

8500 S Texas 6, Houston, TX 77083, USA 832-230-0572

Grades Served 2022-23 SY PK3 - 4

Founded 2015

Teachers 52

Students 868

At KIPP Unity, we believe we are stronger when we work together. We take pride in our diverse community and embrace the uniqueness of each child. Our rigorous academic program and blended learning approach enables our students to develop the intellectual habits needed to succeed in college and beyond. Unity focuses on the values of LEAD- love, explore, achieve, and dream because we believe that character is just as important as academics. Students who attend Unity will be empowered to be leaders for transformative change.

Kaleena Coleman

School Leader

"Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kaleena Coleman is the founding school leader of KIPP Unity Primary. Prior to founding KIPP Unity, Ms. Coleman was a Dean at KIPP SHARP College Prep and began her work there as a founding teacher in 2008.

She began her career in education as a 2006 Teach for America Corps Member teaching first grade in Alief ISD. Ms. Coleman has taught first, second, and third grade. She participated in the KIPP School Leadership Team Program in 2012, was a Miles Family Fellow in 2013, and was a Fisher Fellow in 2014. She received her B.A. in Criminology from the University of Southern Maine and her M.A. in Educational Leadership from National Louis University. In the summer of 2018, Ms. Coleman attended the National Institute for Urban School Leaders at Harvard University. She is motivated by her belief that all students deserve an excellent education so that they can live a life filled with opportunity and choice.