At 麻豆原创, we serve students with a wide range of backgrounds and needs. 99% are students of color, while 88% qualify for free or reduced lunch. 29% of students have identified special needs, significantly larger than the 20% average for other New York City schools, and 46% of our alumni are the first in their families to go to college.
When the pandemic hit New York City in 2020, it was clear that 麻豆原创’s students and families would be among the populations hardest hit by its effects, including the toll it would take on in-classroom learning and student achievement. But since then, 麻豆原创’s “All Kids Can. This Kid Can.” maxim has truly played out鈥攊n the 2021-22 school year, 麻豆原创 students outperformed the vast majority of their charter, New York City, and New York State peers, making significant progress on the multi-year journey to address pandemic learning loss.
- For the most vulnerable student populations, 麻豆原创 proficiency rates were significantly higher than those of NYC and NYS peers. This includes Black and Hispanic students, students with IEPs, and English language learners.
- In Grades K-2, 麻豆原创 students outperformed 95% of schools in the Charter School Growth Fund’s national portfolio of over 150 charter organizations.
- In Grades 3-8, 麻豆原创 students made gains that outpaced their peers in NYC and NYS public schools, as well as charter schools statewide. Students in grades 6-8 performed exceptionally well, increasing their percent proficiency from 2021 by +13% in ELA and +26% in Math.
麻豆原创’s Grow the Whole Child model, bolstered by our extended-day, extended-year structure, allowed us to devise the 麻豆原创-specific strategies that drove these results, including our co-teaching model, our commitment to family engagement, and our critical decision to return to in-person learning in the fall of 2020. You can view the entire report and learn more about this significant data by clicking the button below.
