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Cleveland Performing Schools Study: Findings and Recommendations June 20, 2014

About IFF • Nonprofit lender, real estate consultant, and community developer serving the Midwest. Founded in 1988.

• Conduct research to assist nonprofits and government in making informed decisions about resource allocation and real estate investment.

• National leader in studies that measure the supply of and demand for performing schools in urban school districts— on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis.

• Research analyses have informed education reform in Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Washington, DC.

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Methodology • Supply is the total capacity of performing district-run and charter schools.

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Performing schools are schools that receive a grade of A or B using the state accountability measurement.

Performing capacity is the total number of seats available in schools that receive a grade of A or B for each grade division.

• Demand is the total number of students currently enrolled in district-run and charter schools.

• Service Gap is the difference between supply (performing capacity) and demand (students enrolled in district-run and charter schools) for each grade division, K-8 and 9-12.

• Data is from the 2012-2013 school year.

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District Overview School Type District

District, Neighborhood District, Magnet / City Wide District, Charter Total

Pre K K-8 9-12 Number of Students Students Students Campuses Enrolled in Enrolled in Enrolled in 2012-13 2012-13 2012-13

Percent Total Students Enrolled

77 25 8 110

1,110 157 1,267

23,415 2,837 1,559 27,811

8,635 3,918 535 13,088

33,160 6,912 2,094 42,166

56% 12% 3% 71%

8 10

-

3,913 2,136

1,247 -

5160 2,136

9% 4%

7 2 1 14

-

611 164 116 3,733

783 638

1,394 164 116 4,371

2% 0.3% 0.2% 7%

1 15 1 59 169

1,267

159 3,168 156 14,156 41,967

726 3,394 16,482

159 3,894 156 17,550 59,716

0.3% 7% 0.3% 29% 100%

Non-District Charter

Authorizers Ohio Council of Community Schools Buckeye Hope Foundation Educational Resource Consultants of Ohio, Inc Kids Count of Dayton, Inc Richland Academy St. Aloysius Orphanage Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Independent Chartering Board Ohio Department of Education Total Grand Total

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Key Findings 1. K-12 district and charter schools provide 58,067 students with 9,423 seats in performing schools (A and B rated).

2. Cleveland needs 48,644 more seats in performing schools to serve all of its K-12 students (service gap).

3. 57% of the performing seats needed (27,938 seats) are concentrated in 10 neighborhoods (Priority Areas).

4. 47% of performing seats are in district magnet/citywide schools (4,420 seats) and 36% from charter schools authorized by the district (1,208 seats) or Independent Chartering Board (2,158 seats).

5. Most district neighborhood and charter schools authorized by other entities do not provide performing seats.

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Top 10 Priority Areas

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District Schools (All Types)

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Non-District Charters

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Performance by School Type School Type

A

B

C

D

F

Total

Schools Seats Schools Seats Schools Seats Schools Seats Schools Seats Schools

District, Neighborhood

District

District, Magnet/Citywide

District, Charter

Total

Count

-

3

Percent Within School Type

-

4.1%

Count

2

Percent Within School Type

Non-District Charter

Charter, State Education Agency

Total

37.5%

-

5

Percent Within School Type

-

83.3%

Count

2

Percent Within School Type

1.9%

900

Percent Within School Type

17

1.4% 16.3%

-

1

Percent Within School Type Count

Charter, Independent Chartering Board

8%

9

Count

Count Charter, Not-For-Profit

8.3%

900

6.7% 2 14.3%

896 23%

4 28.6%

1,450 3% 3,520 31% 1,208 94% 6,179 9.8%

194 2% 1,262 33%

4 5.4% 5 20.8% 1 16.7% 10 9.6%

13 46.7% 2 14.3%

2,825 6% 2,775 25% 75 6% 5,675

55

38,919

74.3% 77% 8

3,996

33.3% 36%

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-

-

12

6,087 51% 470 12%

16

5,374

40.0% 45% 6

1,250

42.9% 32%

1 6.7%

-

-

1

Percent Within School Type

-

-

-

-

100.0%

Count

2

Percent Within School Type

4%

5.5% 10.9%

15

8.9% 32.6%

6

1,283 2%

7,275

104

62,943

6,558

22

6,625

40.2% 47.8% 40.6%

384

31

12,039

3%

74% 14

-

-

1,456

11,191 18%

-

-

5

24

9.0% 60.6% 68.2% 11.5% 11.6%

Count

896

50,469 80%

-

42,916

74

16.2% 14%

-

63

7,275

Seats

2 4.3%

3,878 24%

384

1

100 % 769 4.7%

384 2%

46

16,301

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Initial Recommendations To triple the number of high-performing seats by 2019: 1. Fill seats in Cleveland’s top performing schools. About 13% of seats go to nonresidents. Also, some A and B rated schools are not at full capacity.

2. Close low-performing charter schools, especially those authorized by nonprofits, 90% of which do not perform.

3. Focus reform and resources on Top 10 Priority Areas.

Develop a differentiated strategy for each based on the academic quality and building condition of schools there.

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Replicate and expand high-performing schools Improve academic performance of C-rated schools Target for turnaround D- and F-rated schools in better building condition

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School Conditions in Priority Areas 12000

10000

956 1316

8000

230

294 278

1903 A

1963 6000

B 2232

D

7090 4000

F

3490

254

2000 2041

896

0 Satisfactory

4144

1775

166 1097

Excellent

C

Borderline

400

213

Poor

unrated

Building Condition

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