Academic Achievement

The CMOs in CSGF's portfolio are producing outstanding student achievement results.   Across our portfolio, the organizations serve a population where nearly 75% of the students qualify for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program ("FRL" – a proxy for level of poverty) and 91% of their students are minority.  Nearly all of CSGF's portfolio organizations are enabling their students to outperform similar peers and the schools in their surrounding district by impressive margins. Most of CSGF's portfolio members operate schools in large urban districts with a history of poor performance, yet these organizations are enabling students to significantly outperform similar students and district averages on a consistent basis.

Highlights:

• Approximately 95% of CSGF's portfolio members are enabling students to outperform comparable district schools in both math and reading; many portfolio members are enabling their students to outperform state averages in both math and reading.
• Some of the CMOs in our Fund I portfolio are beginning to close the achievement gap – enabling their students to perform at levels exceeding affluent students who traditionally outperform low-income students by a significant margin.
• The CMOs in CSGF's portfolio typically operate the highest performing schools in their regions or cities.
• The CMOs in our Fund I portfolio are enabling over 90% of their graduating classes of students to matriculate directly onto colleges and universities even though most of them are the first generation in their family to do so.
• Link to our 2010 Scorecard Charts