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Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter School Evaluation

2011-2024
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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

The Kauffman School had a positive and statistically significant impact on enrollment in four-year colleges that was large enough to close over 80 percent of the gap in enrollment rates for Black high school seniors in Missouri.
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In fall 2011, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation opened the Ewing Marion Kauffman School, a public, tuition-free charter school serving students in Kansas City, Missouri. In the 2021-22 school year, the school enrolled 1,089 students in grades 5 through 12. Most (82 percent) of the students were from low-income households, and 91 percent were Black or Hispanic.

The hallmarks of the Kauffman School include ambitious academic goals, high attendance and character expectations, an extended school year, increased mathematics and reading instructional time, intensive data-driven decision making, extensive teacher professional development, and well-established cultural norms.

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