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Welcome to KIPP Gaston College Preparatory (GCP). Please excuse the website construction.

KIPP GCP was founded in 2001 as one of the first KIPP schools in the entire country and year after year has demonstrated the reality that "All Children Can Learn."

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Our teachers share a passion for helping underserved children, regardless of race and background, climb the mountain to college — yet each offers a distinct vision, inspiration, and motivation for the hard work and dedication they put forth each and every day.

The Raleigh News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)-- “Low-income students aim high at nontraditional school”

By Tim Simmons
December 25, 2005

No one at Gaston College Prep talks about the day they'll close the racial achievement gap. They did that the year the rural school opened in 2001.

Now they talk about the day when every kid will go to college from a student body that is predominantly black and mostly low-income. If they didn't believe it, they wouldn't be breaking ground for a new high school.

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The New York Times - "A chance to learn"

December 16, 2002

The first thing you notice about the school is how quiet it is. The kids are absorbed in their studies and except for the low roar of conversation in the cafeteria during lunch, or the enthusiastic screeching of band practice, you hardly hear a sound.

The Gaston College Preparatory School in this rural town just across the border from Virginia is housed in a new low-rise building on land that until recently was a peanut and soybean farm. Farm equipment outlets and a cotton field or two line the roads leading to the school.

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School Phone: 252-308-6932
School Fax: 252-308-6936

320 Pleasant Hill Road
Gaston, NC 27832-9511

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