The nine PartnersSI schools with which we have worked for at least two years achieved an average 10.1 percentage-point gain in the number of students testing proficient or advanced on the California Standards Test-English Language Arts (CST-ELA), more than tripling the state's average gain over the same period.
In 2011, our 19 partner schools achieved a gain in literacy, as measured by the CST-ELA, of 5.4 percentage-point growth in students testing at or above proficient, more than the California average of 1.6 percentage-point growth and more than double our partner districts' average of 1.9 percentage-point growth.
Subgroups in our partner schools also outperformed their California peers: English Learners testing at or above proficient on the CST-ELA experienced an average 4.2 percentage-point gain (vs. an average 2.5 percentage-point gain for their cohort statewide); Latino students had 5.1 percentage-point growth (vs. 2.6); and African American students had 3.8 percentage-point growth (vs. 2.1).
We successfully expanded our transformation approach in middle schools. Performance in our partner middle schools was among the strongest of all of our schools (7.8 percentage-point growth in students testing at or above proficient on the CST-ELA).
