The district staff report acknowledges that the school is
outperforming area district schools, by 16 percentage points in English and 23 percentage points in math.
Not exact matches
While individual school performance varies, charter schools generally
outperform district schools in the Bay
Area.
Charters
outperformed the
district across both subject
areas at every single grade level, doing especially well at the earlier grades: in 3rd and 4th grade Math, charter schools
outperformed the
district by 16.3 and 11.2 percentage points, respectively.
Such claims are an attempt to explain away the fact that charters like Success are out - performing
district schools; in fact, Success ranked in the top one percent of all New York state schools in math and the top three percent in English,
outperforming schools in far more affluent
areas.
A study released in March by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or CREDO, found that most urban charter students in the Bay
Area outperformed traditional
district students in both English and math.
Although the report says charters, specifically those serving low - income minority students in urban
areas,
outperform their
district counterparts in many cities, the sector hasn't done enough to push the envelope in the nearly 25 years since the first charter law was passed.
Although the city has
outperformed the state's other cities for years, experts believe that the New York City
district is further along than other metropolitan
areas in introducing new Common Core lessons into the classroom.