Results by District or School: High School
Over the past 14 years, IRRE has worked with 53 high schools and 14 middle schools in 11 states. Due to limitations in available data, only six of our partner districts are represented in the information on this page. Nonetheless, these results give you an idea of how First Things First impacts student outcomes. All results summarized here are based on publicly available data.
Kansas City, Kansas Public SchoolsThe Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) Public Schools was IRRE’s first partner, implementing First Things First in all of its 43 schools. The results presented here are for the four comprehensive high schools and are based on data that is publicly available through the Kansas Department of Education (www.ksde.org). The long-term trends for KCK’s comprehensive high schools indicate that student performance on the state assessments in reading and mathematics has dramatically improved since the start of FTF implementation in all schools in 2000-01. For another view of math results in Kansas City, Kansas, click here to see the Math Benchmarking trends In KCK’s four comprehensive high schools, the graduation rate increased from a low of 48% in 2000 to a high of 82% in 2006. After that, the rate leveled off slightly to 80% in 2008. |
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Districts in the Region One Education Service Center in TexasIRRE has partnered with three districts (Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD, Weslaco, ISD; and Zapata, ISD) located in the Region One Education Service Center in Texas. Across those three districts, six comprehensive high schools have been implementing First Things First strategies since 2006. The results presented here are based on data that is publicly available through the Texas Education Agency The results indicate that all six high schools had improvements in both reading and mathematics state assessments after just one year of implementation. These gains continued and, in most cases, increased through the second year. One district with three FTF high schools saw double-digit gains in both reading and mathematics after two years of implementation and three of the six high schools had increases in graduation rates after one year. |
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Agua Fria Union High School District, ArizonaIRRE and Agua Fria Union High School District have partnered to implement instructional improvement strategies and Measuring What Matters in four comprehensive high schools since 2008. The results presented here are available through the Arizona Department of Education. After one year of implementation three of four comprehensive high schools had gains on both reading and mathematics state assessments; and all four saw gains in mathematics. |
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Austin ISD, TexasSince 2006 IRRE has partnered with two comprehensive high schools in the Austin, Texas Independent School District to implement FTF strategies. The results presented for Austin are publicly available through the Texas Education Agency. After two years of FTF implementation Travis High School has seen double-digit gains in their ELA and mathematics TAKS test performance. Travis High School has begun to see a reversal of a four year declining trend in graduation rates with a 7 percentage point increase from 2007 to 2008. The data from the second high school has been omitted due to changes in school structure that affected data reporting during FTF implementation. |
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