Expanded - Time Model Details Model
# Schools
# Students
Location
Notes
Achievement First*
17
4,500
CT and NY
Network of charter schools; began with Amistad Academy (New Haven, CT)
Accelerated Learning Academies
7
4,000
Pittsburgh, PA
School improvement initiative of Pittsburgh Public Schools
Apollo 20
9
7,000
Houston, TX
School improvement initiative of Houston Independent School District
Balsz School Distirct
5
2,900
Phoenix, AZ
Whole district conversion to 200 - day year
Expanded Learning Time Initiative*
19
10,500
9 districts in MA
Statewide competitive grant program
KIPP Academy*
99
26,000
22 states
National network of charter schools
Recovery School District*
25 (district), 55 (charter)
40,000
New Orleans, LA (and region)
Formed post-Katrina; mix of charter - and district - operated schools; time listed is for district schools
Uncommon Schools*
11
10,000
NY and NJ
Network of charter schools; began with North Star Academy (Newark, NJ)
NATIONAL AVERAGE
n/a
n/a
n/a
According to data from the 2007 – 08 Schools and Staffing Survey, the average year is 179 days and average day is 6.7 hours (i.e., 1,199 hours)**
* Annual hour total represents a rounded average across multiple sites. Other models have fixed schedules across schools. ** See Tammy Kolbe, Mark Partridge and Fran O’Reilly, Time and Learning in Schools: A National Profile (Boston, Mass.: National Center on Time & Learning, and Storrs, CT: Center for Education Policy Analysis, March 2011).
LEAR N I NG TIME I N AMER I CA
25