YES Prep Public Schools Wins Inaugural Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools
- YES Prep eliminated nearly every income and ethnic achievement gap that urban schools nationwide face-and closed gaps five times more often than other CMOs. In 2011, YES Prep's low-income students performed higher than the state's non-low-income students in middle and high school math, science and reading. Similarly, YES Prep's Hispanic students performed higher than their white peers statewide in the same areas. For example, in 2011, 97 percent of YES Prep's Hispanic students were proficient on the state middle school science assessment, compared with 89 percent of the state's white students.YES Prep's African-American students also performed higher than their white peers statewide in nearly all subjects and school levels.
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