State Registrar

• Department:
  Regional Support and Leadership

About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a free, public charter school network with more than 45 Pre-K - 12 schools across Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. With over 30 years in Texas, we work together with our families and communities to prepare students for college, career, and beyond! Our schools provide a high-quality, well-rounded education built on academic success and personal growth, where all students learn and thrive in a productive, safe, and joyful way!

As one of the earliest charter networks in Texas—founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018—we hire dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven community that wants every child to "run to school," the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

The State Registrar is responsible for supporting all KIPP Texas high schools in ensuring transcript accuracy and in maintaining and sending accurate transcripts. As a member of the Academics team, the State Registrar maintains accurate student records by identifying data errors, and develops systems to ensure 100% accountability of all Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) required data and student records.

The State Registrar leans in intensively to support campus-based Deans in refining their processes and ensuring the accuracy of transcripts.

GOALS:

This role is directly accountable for achieving KIPP Texas 2030 secondary goals:

100% Accountability:
Maintain absolute accuracy of all PEIMS required data elements and high school student records across the network.

100% Senior Graduation Clearance:
Achieve absolute accuracy and completion in the senior clearance process, ensuring that 100% of graduating seniors are verified, approved, and officially signed off in full alignment with all state and network graduation mandates before graduation deadlines.

Campus Process Alignment:
Standardize and refine transcript processes across campuses

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Transcript Management & Auditing Processes

Organize and manage the comprehensive transcript audit process across all KIPP Texas schools.

Serve as the network's final decision-maker for the senior graduation clearance process, executing ultimate sign-off authority on all official student transcripts and certifying that all state and institutional graduation requirements have been fully satisfied.

Manage and log official changes made to student transcripts outside of the standard campus grade change window.

Oversee state-wide validation and recording processes for credit recovery tracks across all high schools in KIPP Texas.

Support schools across the network with interpreting and managing transfer credits and international transcripts.

Maintain student transcripts and ensure that all incoming transfer grades and GPAs are calculated correctly and reflected appropriately in the district student information system.

Campus Operations & System Support

Develop, support, and coach school-based deans in refining local data management practices and transcript workflows.

Identify data anomalies that may highlight data errors or incorrect coding across KIPP Texas, taking swift action to correct them.

Coordinate centralized grading processes, particularly supervising the submission, tracking, and completion of official grade change forms.

Process and securely transmit outgoing requests for student information, including verification of enrollment (VOE) and transcripts for colleges, universities, and third-party networks.

Compliance & Operational Assistance

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