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Abstract
This article reports the effects of attending an elementary full-service community school (FSCS) on a variety of student academic outcomes in high school. The focal FSCS, Key Elementary, serves students in grades K-5 in a diverse southeastern New York State (NYS) school district. The academic performance of students, born between 1991 and 1996, who attended Key Elementary FSCS is compared with a similar group of students who attended a traditional elementary school in the same district. Overall, students who attended Key Elementary FSCS scored higher on most of the NYS Regents examinations, were more likely to graduate with NYS Advanced Designation high school diplomas, and had higher average cumulative GPAs and SAT I scores than students who attended the comparison school. Students who attended the elementary FSCS also took more AP exams, and were more likely to indicate their intention to enroll in a four-year college. Implications of these findings for future research and practice are discussed.
Notes
1 Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation requires a score of 65 out of 100 or better on Comprehensive English, all three Mathematics, Global History, U.S. History, one physical and one life science, and Language other than English Regents examinations.
2 Factor score created using Maximum Likelihood, unrotated factor analysis.
3 Total SAT I scores were only available for 227 of the total sample size of 315.
4 To calculate the 9th to 12th cumulative GPA, the district averages the GPA for all high school grades and courses. Courses are not weighted equally. Honor courses, AP courses, and Regents courses are weighted more.