OUR STUDENTS
415 EECS students in 2013-2014
78% Hispanic 18% African American 2% Multiracial 1.5% White .5% Asian
With all the focus around standardized assessments, we thought it was a good time to get back to basics.
Our
15% receive Special Education services
48% live in the surrounding neighborhood
86% qualify for free or reduced lunch *earning less than $44K annually for a family of 4
48% receive government assistance
17 families live in situations so unstable they are considered homeless
goal is for every
Erie
graduate to succeed in high
performing college prep high schools and graduate from academically rigorous colleges.
In 2005, coincidentally the same year Erie Elementary Charter School was founded, The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) outlined a simple indicator based on a student’s 9th grade year that predicted a student’s graduation rate with 80% accuracy.