Impact

• 100% of Carver seniors have graduated high school on time since 2005.

• Almost 100% matriculate directly into college each year, most being the first in their families to do so.

• From 2010 to 2020, 85% of Carver students graduated with a Baccalaureate degree within six years.

• This achievement is far more impressive than the April 2024 NCES study results, which followed 23,000 students starting their freshman year of high school in 2009. While 74% of those students enrolled in college after graduating, nearly half failed to obtain any postsecondary credential by June 2021.

• This National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) study also examined students by race. Although white students had the highest enrollment rate (53%), Asian students were the top earners of bachelor’s degrees, at 56%. Hispanic and Black students had the second-and third-highest enrollment rates, though far behind white students, at 20% and 12%, respectively. Despite pursuing higher education, 46% of Hispanic students and 56% of Black students earned no postsecondary credential.

• Carver after-school programs for grades K through 8 experience 85%+ average daily attendance.

• One in five Norwalk Public School (NPS) students is a Carver student.

• Carver's Grade 5 students make up 53% of all Grade 5 students in the NPS district.

• Carver served 2,889 K-12 (unduplicated) students in our after-school and summer programs in fiscal year 2022-2023. 

Measuring Individual Student Performance & Growth

Carver measures progress across reading, math, science, critical thinking, and creative expression in a close partnership with our partnering schools and school districts. As our interactive dashboards show in detail, DIBELS, NWEA MAP, and SAT outcomes data for the 2022-2023 programs are overall positive. Carver students are improving on the DIBELS literacy assessment and MAP Math and Reading. Carver is advancing student excellence and closing opportunity gaps while continuing to address pandemic-related learning loss.

DISTRICTWIDE IMPACT

Carver’s student performance data, surveys, parent meetings, years of after-school and summer programming, and research from multiple fields and sources demonstrate that Carver students and the school district improve with Carver. When Carver expanded after-school and summer programs into Norwalk’s schools, the Norwalk Public Schools (NPS) district was one of the worst-performing districts in the state. Today, NPS has been the number one city school district for four years, as measured by the Connecticut State Accountability Report. Countless factors have contributed to NPS’s many achievements over the years. We are privileged to be a part of their story.

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