This report analyzes how student responses to the District-Wide Survey (DWS) questions about eating breakfast relate to the availability of school breakfast programs.
Over the last decade, the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) embarked on a critical effort to improve the outcomes of students in its low-performing schools. This effort, aimed to dramatically improve student achievement by shifting school management to either external charter providers, called Renaissance Charters, or by placing schools in a network that receives additional district supports, is named the Renaissance Initiative. The District selected Mathematica and its partner, Research For Action, to conduct a three-year evaluation from 2017-2020.
District-level report on findings from a 2019 survey of exiting seniors about whether they plan to obtain additional education, secure employment, or pursue other activities after graduation.
We are gathering information from a variety of sources about how digital learning is going. This document provides a summary of the questions that we’re asking across five main topics.
A summary of school-level and student-level trends within each SPR performance tier from 2014-15 through 2018-19.
On March 16, 2020, SDP closed schools and offices in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Like many other districts, SDP had to quickly pivot from in-person to virtual instruction. This report evaluates the four expected outcomes included in SDP’s “Continuity of Education Plan” for online instruction for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year.
This 11-page brief uses three years of school-level data to explore the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of school climate and teacher retention.
This brief uses District-Wide Survey data to explore the trends in student perceptions of college and career readiness at School District of Philadelphia (SDP) high schools from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
Information about progress related to the Education of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH) grant program and the priorities of SDP staff.
In July 2019, we published a brief on “summer” learning loss from 2015-16 to 2018-19. This brief updates and extends those analyses by adding a fourth “summer” of information about K-2 independent reading levels and examining student performance by demographic characteristics, Special Education and English Learner status, and zip code of residence.