KIPP Gaston College Preparatory Public School opened in 2001 and serves 1,043 students in Grades K-1, 5-12 in rural Northhampton County. Gaston Prep provides transportation and lunch to its mostly low-income students. Over 50% of the school’s first graduating classes have graduated college, five times the national average for low-income students.

NMTC financing for the school that also supported Rural Health Group, an FQHC.