Students who attend Edison partnership schools across the country are making historic academic progress, posting significant gains in state-mandated assessments, as documented in The Sixth Annual Report on School Performance. The report compares 2002 state test scores with those compiled in 2003.

Edison students posted an average gain of 6.7
    percentage points between 2002 and 2003. This
    gain rate is more than two and nearly three times
    the respective district and state gain rates where
    those Edison partnership schools are located.

On the basis of average achievement gains at each
    school across the system—82 percent—are
    fulfilling their primary mission: raising student
    achievement.

Comparing the gain rates of Edison partnership
    schools to 390 schools with similar levels of
    economic disadvantage and ethnicity shows
    Edison schools have improved achievement by
    6.7 percentage points from 2002 to 2003
    versus an average gain rate of only 3.6
    percentage points for similar, non-Edison Schools.

In 2002-2003, Edison partnership schools, on
    average, reduced the failing rate on criterion-
    referenced tests by 5.0 percentage points, a rate
    that is three and five times as large as the
    respective districts and states where the Edison
    schools are located.

The average gain rates of Edison partnership
    schools with predominantly African-American
    students (90 percent or higher) are nearly identical
    to the rates of gain across all Edison schools.
    These schools average one-year gains of 7.2
    percentage points and two-year gains of 9.5
    percentage points.

Edison has been asked to work in a number of
    No Child Left Behind “needs improvement”
    schools. Working in close partnership with its
    clients, Edison has improved student achievement
    by an average one-year gain of 5.5 percentage
    points. Over the same period of time, the districts
    and states in which these traditionally low-
    performing schools are located made average
    one-year gains of 3.5 and 1.9 percentage points,
    respectively.

For the eighth consecutive year, parents are over-
    whelmingly satisfied with their Edison schools. In
    an independent survey, 85 percent of Edison
    parents rate their school an A or B, with a
    majority of 51 percent giving their schools an A.

The complete Sixth Annual Report on School Performance is available here in Adobe Acrobat format:

Sixth Annual Report on
School Performance

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