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Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2022 ReportThe 2022 report presents an updated set of data through school year 2020-21. This report presents a number of different ways that member districts can analyze the data themselves by disaggregating results, showing trends, and combining variables. The companion online dashboard adds the ability to conduct several comparisons and analysis beyond what is presented in this report. To access this system, go to www.edwires.org.204 pagesOctober 2022Mirrors or Windows: How Well Do Large City Public Schools Overcome the Effects of Poverty and Other Barriers?Over the last twenty years of district-level assessments on the Nation's Report Card, the participating urban school districts have narrowed the achievement gap in mathematics and reading by about 50 percent. The Mirrors or Windows study found that urban students are making significant progress academically, despite having to overcome the effects of poverty.84 pagesJune 2021Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2020 ReportThe refined set of Academic Key Performance Indicators are designed to measure the progress among the Council’s membership toward improving the academic outcomes for students.289 pagesOctober 2020Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2019 ReportThe refined set of Academic Key Performance Indicators are designed to measure the progress among the Council’s membership toward improving the academic outcomes for students.282 pagesOctober 2019Academic Key Performance Indicators 2018 ReportThis 2018 report focuses on the data collection and analysis of Academic KPIs including: • Pre-K enrollment relative to Kindergarten enrollment • Percent of 4th and 8th graders proficient in reading and math on NAEP • Algebra I completion rates for credit by grade 9 • Ninth grade course failure rates — at least one core course • Absentee rates by grade level • Ninth graders with B average (GPA) or better • Absentee rates by grade level • Suspension rates • Instructional days missed per student235 pagesOctober 2018Excellence for All: Creating Environments for Success for Males of Color in the Great City SchoolsThis report seeks to contribute to the ongoing dialogue of raising our expectations for males of color and provide a resource for school districts seeking to build or recalibrate their initiatives to improve the academic outcomes of young men and boys of color. Throughout this report there are exemplars of current initiatives across the nation’s big cities as well as promising practices in various areas.36 pagesOctober 2017School Improvement Grants: Progress Report from America’s Great City SchoolsThis report measures trends in performance among urban schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant awards as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Additionally, we aim to document how member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools implemented SIG and specifically what effects the program had on student test scores and school “holding power” – the ability of high schools to move students through the system on a timely basis.113 pagesFebruary 2015Beating the Odds: Analysis of Student Performance on State Assessments: Results from 2011-2012 School Year- City-by-City ProfilesThe twelfth edition of Beating the Odds provides city-by-city statistics, which are presented year-by-year and grade-by-grade on each state test in mathematics and reading between spring 2009 through spring 2012.44 pagesFall 2013
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