Our Impact
City Year provides a powerful double bottom line: improved outcomes for students in high-need schools and the cultivation of the next generation of leaders through our alumni.
Since 1988, City Year has:
Served more than 2 million children |
Completed over 57 million service hours |
Graduated more than 30,000 alumni |
Improving Outcomes for Students
in High-Need Schools
Supporting School-Wide Gains
According to research by Policy Studies Associates on 600 schools in 22 school districts,1 schools partnering with City Year—as compared with similar schools without City Year—were:
Up to 3x more likely |
to improve on math assessments |
2x more likely to improve |
on ELA assessments |
A major national randomized control trial found that schools that partner with Diplomas Now—a collaboration founded with City Year, Communities in School and Talent Development Secondary—reduced the number of students at risk of dropping out according to the research-based early warning indicators: low attendance, poor behavior and course failure in ELA or math.2 The study also found statistically significant impact on reducing chronic absenteeism in middle schools, defined as missing more than 10 percent of school days in a single academic year. Ensuring more students are on track to graduationStudents who reach 10th grade on time and on track in their attendance, behavior and course performance are three times more likely to graduate from high school. City Year has helped drive a:
City Year helped 69 percent of students identified as needing support to move on track in their social-emotional skills.7 Skills measured include self-awareness, self-management and relationship development, which research shows contributes to college and career readiness. Download the full impact highlights document. Cultivating the next
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30,000 City Year Alumniare leading and serving in a wide range of professions, including education, business, law, health, corporate social responsibility, government and public policy.8 |
94% of City Year Alumniagree that their City Year experience had a significantly positive impact on their lives.9 |
City Year Alumni are 45% More Likelyto be civically engaged or belong to a community organization.10 |
300+ City Year Alumnieach year decide to become teachers after their year of service, creating a diverse pipeline of talented and trained educators committed to student success.11 |
1 Policy Studies Associates. (2015). Analysis of the Impacts of City Year’s Whole School Whole Child Model on Partner Schools Performance. For more on the study, visit our Research section.
2 Diplomas Now Brief. i3 Early Impact Report: Analysis and Implications. (2016). For more on the study, visit our Research section.
3 Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Best Practices for Effective Schools. Retrieved from: http://urbanhealth.jhu.edu/media/best_practices/effective_schools.pdf.
4 Spring 2017 teacher survey, n=1,865.
5 Attendance Works. (2018). Retrieved from: http://www.attendanceworks.org/chronic-absence/the-problem/10-facts-about-school-attendance.
6 2016-2017, attendance, Gr. 3-9, n=2,626.
7 2016-2017, SEL n=4,726 (SEL as measured by Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA), a validated observational assessment that measures social-emotional competencies in students in K-8.).
8 2018 City Year alumni data.
9 2018 City Year Alumni Survey. The survey was delivered to 16,000 alumni and received a 33 percent response rate, a statistically significant sample with a 95 percent confidence interval and one-point margin of error. Over half of the survey respondents are from those who graduated from City Year between 2014 and 2017; therefore, the data is most reflective of recent alumni sentiments.
10 The City Year Experience: Putting alumni on the path to lifelong civic engagement. (2007). Retrieved from: http://www.policystudies.com/_policystudies.com/files/City_Year_Alumni_Cohort_Study.pdf.
11 Assumes 110 City Year AmeriCorps members per site/city served; average of 11 corps from each city entering teaching each year.
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