Solutions for School Administrators
You juggle more demands in a day than the average CEO faces in a week. We’re here to help. We simplify the complex challenges of student support, helping you maximize your resources and focus on improving academic outcomes.
How can City Connects help?
In short, we’ll improve the coordination and delivery of student support in your school. A City Connects Coordinator — a master’s-level school counselor or a school social worker — will organize the resources and structures already present in your school and community, connecting students with services in a more efficient way. The Coordinator will be your point person for community-based service providers and for families, reducing the burden on you and your staff.
Our Student Support Information System creates a customized, confidential student support record for every student, following them from year to year and school to school. This lets us tell you, in real time, how we’re delivering services and enrichment to your students.
With an optimized system of student support in place, principals in City Connects schools see an impact on student academic achievement, standardized test performance, classroom behavior, school climate, and student health and wellbeing.
City Connects leads to lasting benefits
CITY CONNECTS SCHOOLS
City Connects programs in early childhood and elementary schools have a positive impact on students.
School Readiness
City Connects Students demonstrate higher school readiness scores than students in comparison schools.
Standardized Test Scores
City Connects Students outperform their peers on standardized test scores.
Report Card Grades
City Connects Students achieve better report card scores in math, reading, behavior, work habits, and effort.
AFTER LEAVING CITY CONNECTS SCHOOLS
Students continue to show positive benefits in middle school after leaving City Connects schools.
Statewide Tests
Former City Connects Students outperform peers from comparison schools on statewide tests in both English Language Arts and Math.
Grade Retention
Former City Connects Students have lower rates of being held back in grade through grade 9.
School Attendance
Former City Connects Students are significantly less likely to be chronically absent.
AFTER LEAVING CITY CONNECTS SCHOOLS
The effects of attending an elementary school with City Connects even persist into high school.
High School Admission
Former City Connects students are more likely to be admitted to rigorous exam schools.
Statewide Tests
Former City Connects students achieve Advanced or Proficient scores on grade 10 statewide tests in both English Language Arts and Math at a much higher rate.
Dropout Rate
Former City Connects students have a dropout rate that is approximately half that of students who never experienced City Connects.
