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Introduction June 2009 Since 2005, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has released an annual “Dashboard” of leading statistical indicators about the growth and quality of public charter schools. This 2009 edition of the Dashboard makes four major improvements over previous releases. It includes a more than 10-fold increase in the amount of the data, two important academic performance indicators (ACT scores and SAT scores), individual dashboards for each of the 41 jurisdictions with charter schools, and a companion on-line database of this report that allows users to create their own custom reports. (Visit www.publiccharters.org for the on-line Dashboard.) Among the most significant findings this year: • More than 1.4 million students now attend over 4,600 public charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia • The student population has grown 11% and the number of schools has grown 8% since one year ago (2007-2008) • 62% of public charter school students are non-white and 48% qualify for free and reduced price lunch (compared with 45% non-white and 45% free and reduced price lunch in all public schools) • While 56% of students attend charter schools in large cities, a growing percentage of students are enrolled in charter schools in rural areas (14% compared with 11% five years ago) • Nearly 30% of students attend charter schools with non-traditional grade configurations, such as Kindergarten through 12th grade (compared with less than 10% of non-charter school students) • Nationally, the average public charter school has been open 5.9 years • As of the 2008-2009 academic year, 21% of charter schools have been open at least 10 years. Four years ago, only 3% of charter schools had been open more than 10 years These last two statistics are particularly interesting. Much school reform literature suggests that it takes at least 7 to 10 years for school-wide reform efforts to make substantial changes in student performance, which is confirmed by the high-quality studies in the Alliance’s Charter School Achievement: What We Know (2009). Consequently, as public charter schools get older and more experienced, we believe that public charter schools will get even better at providing high quality learning environments. With the attention given to for-profit educational management organizations and non-profit charter management organizations, it is interesting to note that over three-quarters of public charter schools continue to be freestanding, or “mom and pop” schools. As the movement grows, it’s important to focus significant attention on ensuring strong startups and ongoing quality in this large sector, which is the “seed corn” for greater scale. After all, who knows where the next KIPP, ICEF or Achievement First will come from? While several recent studies show public charter schools outperforming traditional public schools, the availability of comparable data across states continues to limit the ability of reports like this dashboard to answer questions about charter school performance. To address this challenge, in addition to including ACT scores and SAT scores this year, we plan to add new performance indicators to the on-line database version of this report in the coming months and to next year’s report. Of course, the charter school movement faces greater challenges than data availability. Today, 26 states and the District of Columbia maintain state-imposed caps on the number and growth of charter schools. Funding for charter schools remains lower than that provided traditional public schools, and this will continue despite the President’s recent recommendation to increase federal support by 25% next year. However, our ability to make sound policy decisions about charter schools will be greatly enhanced by tools like The Dashboard that provide us with a wealth of information on performance and trends. We hope this report continues to be a valuable resource to public charter school supporters across the country as they work to inform parents, lawmakers, and the general public about the many successes we are seeing in innovative public charter schools.

Nelson Smith

President & CEO

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Table of Contents National Public Charter School Dashboard

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Size of Public Charter School Student Population Growth of Public Charter Schools Public Charter School Characteristics Public Charter School Performance and Accountability Public Charter School Policy Environment State-by-State Comparisons

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Size of Public Charter School Student Population Growth of Public Charter Schools Public Charter School Characteristics Public Charter School Performance and Accountability Public Charter School Policy Environment

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State Public Charter School Dashboards

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Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Methodology & Data Sources Dashboard Methodology Data Sources

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Mississippi Missouri Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

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National Dashboard

Size of Public Charter School Student Population Number of Students

Academic Year

Students as a % of all Public School Students

Free and Reduced Price Lunch

Race/Ethnicity Year

White

Black

Hispanic

Asian

Other

Year

Students Eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch

‘99-‘00

41.9%

33.1%

19.4%

2.8%

2.8%

‘99-‘00

27.6%

‘00-‘01

42.3%

33.0%

19.3%

2.9%

2.5%

‘00-‘01

29.3%

‘01-‘02

41.5%

31.7%

19.6%

3.0%

4.1%

‘01-‘02

30.2%

‘02-‘03

41.1%

32.8%

20.3%

3.0%

2.7%

‘02-‘03

34.7%

‘03-‘04

41.4%

31.5%

21.2%

3.2%

2.8%

‘03-‘04

35.2%

‘04-‘05

41.2%

30.7%

21.4%

3.2%

3.5%

‘04-‘05

38.0%

‘05-‘06

40.2%

31.4%

19.7%

3.4%

5.2%

‘05-‘06

43.4%

‘06-‘07

38.9%

30.7%

24.0%

3.4%

2.9%

‘06-‘07

44.5%

‘07-‘08

39.1%

30.9%

22.0%

3.6%

4.5%

‘07-‘08

46.5%

‘08-‘09

38.5%

29.7%

24.6%

3.9%

3.4%

‘08-‘09

47.9%

Geographic Locale

Grade Configuration Year

Elementary

Middle

Middle/ High

High

Elementary/ Middle/High

‘99-‘00

50.3%

8.6%

9.9%

13.6%

17.7%

‘00-‘01

48.6%

7.7%

9.7%

13.1%

20.8%

‘01-‘02

47.9%

7.3%

9.6%

13.8%

21.4%

‘02-‘03

47.9%

7.0%

9.7%

13.3%

22.1%

‘03-‘04

46.0%

7.1%

8.7%

16.1%

22.1%

‘04-‘05

46.9%

7.0%

9.1%

16.7%

20.3%

‘05-‘06

45.9%

7.4%

9.4%

17.2%

20.0%

‘06-‘07

46.0%

8.0%

8.9%

17.0%

20.1%

‘07-‘08

45.8%

7.8%

9.0%

17.4%

20.0%

‘08-‘09

45.8%

7.9%

9.1%

16.7%

20.4%

Year

City

Suburb

Town

Rural

‘99-‘00

54.5%

32.0%

3.7%

9.9%

‘00-‘01

55.9%

30.1%

3.7%

10.2%

‘01-‘02

56.3%

29.9%

3.6%

10.3%

‘02-‘03

56.1%

30.2%

3.3%

10.5%

‘03-‘04

57.4%

28.6%

2.9%

11.1%

‘04-‘05

55.2%

28.8%

3.2%

12.8%

‘05-‘06

56.6%

28.0%

3.2%

12.2%

‘06-‘07

55.7%

25.0%

5.9%

13.5%

Waiting Lists Year

Estimated # of Students on Waiting Lists

‘08-‘09

365,000

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Growth of Public Charter Schools Number of Schools

Academic Year

Schools as a % of all Public Schools

Growth of Schools Year

# of Closed Schools,

# of New Schools,

Growth in # of Schools,

‘08-‘09

142

491

8.1%

Spring 2008

Opened Fall 2008

2008-2009

Percentage of Students Year

State with Highest Percentage

Percentage of Students in Top 6 States

School District with Highest Percentage of Schools

School Districts with 10% or more Students in Charter Schools

‘05-‘06

Arizona (8.3%)

60.4%

New Orleans (68.6%)

41

‘06-‘07

Arizona (8.7%)

60.0%

New Orleans (56.5%)

43

‘07-‘08

Arizona (8.8%)

57.0%

New Orleans (54.5%)

62

‘08-‘09

Arizona (8.9%)

55.4%

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Public Charter School Characteristics Average Number of Years Open Year

Average # of Years Open

Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘05-‘06

4.5

42.1%

29.5%

25.3%

3.1%

‘06-‘07

5

38.2%

27.8%

29.1%

4.8%

‘07-‘08

5.4

33.7%

27.2%

32.1%

6.9%

‘08-‘09

5.9

30.7%

27.8%

20.7%

20.8%

Start-up and Conversion (2008-2009)

Start-up 89.5%

Conversion 10.5%

Freestanding, CMO, and EMO (2007-2008)

(2008-2009))

Freestanding

Freestanding

77.2%

Managed by EMO 11.2%

Managed by CMO 11.7%

77.4%

Managed by EMO 11.6%

Managed by CMO 12.0%

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Public Charter School Performance and Accountability AYP Year

Charter Schools Making AYP

Public Schools (Charter & Traditional) Making AYP

‘05-‘06

67.5%

73.0%

‘06-‘07

65.7%

73.3%

‘07-‘08

61.2%

63.2%

Academic Year

Mean ACT Score Charter School Mean ACT Score Public School (Charter & Traditional)

Mean ACT Score

Academic Year

Mean SAT Score Charter School Mean SAT Score Public School (Charter & Traditional)

Mean SAT Score

Public Charter School Policy Environment Policy Environment # of States with Charter Laws

40 + D.C.

# of States with State-Imposed Caps on Charters

26 + D.C.

# of States that Provide Funding for Charter School Facilities Average Per-Pupil Charter Funding as % of Average District School Funding # of Non-Local School District Charter School Authorizers

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13 + D.C. 78% (Statewide), 76% (Urban Districts) 91 (11%)

State-by-State Comparisons

Size of Public Charter School Student Population Student Population State

# of Students


National

1,407,817

2.9%

AK

5,207

4.0%

AR

3,835

0.8%

AZ

90,992

8.9%

CA

280,854

4.5%

CO

61,783

7.5%

CT

4,696

0.8%

DC

25,724

36.1%

DE

8,626

6.9%

FL

116,983

4.5%

GA

54,062

3.3%

HI

7,373

4.1%

IA

922

0.2%

ID

11,959

4.3%

IL

30,795

1.5%

IN

15,611

1.5%

KS

4,305

0.9%

LA

25,999

3.8%

MA

26,384

2.8%

MD

8,836

1.0%

MI

100,996

6.2%

MN

32,776

3.9%

MO

17,136

1.9%

MS

371

0.1%

NC

36,007

2.5%

NH

585

0.3%

NJ

19,726

1.4%

NM

11,634

3.6%

NV

9,813

2.2%

NY

33,581

1.3%

OH

88,667

4.7%

OK

5,418

0.9%

OR

13,617

2.4%

PA

70,567

3.9%

RI

3,134

2.2%

SC

8,465

1.2%

TN

3,656

0.4%

TX

101,685

2.1%

UT

27,369

5.0%

VA

250

0.0%

WI

37,277

4.3%

WY

255

0.3%

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Size of Public Charter School Student Population Ethnicity & Free and Reduced Price Lunch State

White

Black

Hispanic

Asian

Other


National

38.5%

29.7%

24.6%

AK

65.8%

2.3%

5.2%

3.9%

3.4%

47.9%

2.8%

23.8%

10.3%

AR

53.0%

39.4%

3.0%

4.5%

0.1%

24.4%

AZ

51.3%

7.2%

32.8%

3.8%

4.8%

61.1%

CA

34.6%

12.2%

41.1%

5.8%

6.4%

39.5%

CO

61.4%

8.3%

25.4%

3.9%

1.0%

27.2%

CT

13.7%

63.5%

21.1%

1.4%

0.3%

56.5%

DC

2.7%

83.6%

12.8%

0.9%

0.1%

25.1%

DE

50.0%

39.8%

3.8%

6.1%

0.3%

32.4%

FL

42.5%

22.5%

32.8%

1.9%

0.3%

29.5%

GA

34.9%

40.8%

15.7%

4.0%

4.6%

49.7%

HI

29.6%

1.4%

2.9%

64.2%

1.8%

32.9%

IA

62.3%

25.8%

11.0%

0.7%

0.3%

52.1%

ID

91.8%

0.9%

4.8%

1.4%

1.0%

12.0%

IL

5.9%

62.5%

28.2%

1.4%

2.1%

69.4%

IN

28.8%

60.0%

5.9%

0.5%

4.8%

65.3%

KS

74.7%

4.2%

13.5%

3.2%

4.4%

24.0%

LA

14.7%

79.8%

2.9%

2.4%

0.3%

78.9%

MA

43.5%

26.3%

22.9%

4.3%

3.0%

45.8%

MD

15.8%

78.3%

4.5%

0.6%

0.9%

55.5%

MI

47.3%

43.6%

5.0%

1.4%

2.7%

64.0%

MN

48.6%

28.2%

7.6%

13.2%

2.4%

53.5%

MO

7.3%

84.2%

7.1%

1.1%

0.3%

75.9%

MS

54.2%

41.8%

1.6%

2.4%

0.0%

25.3%

NC

61.3%

31.6%

4.2%

1.9%

1.1%

16.5%

NH

96.0%

0.8%

1.0%

0.8%

1.4%

3.8%

NJ

9.4%

64.4%

22.7%

2.5%

1.0%

60.7%

NM

37.0%

3.2%

48.8%

1.4%

9.6%

45.3%

NV

52.3%

23.5%

18.3%

3.9%

2.0%

9.2%

NY

9.9%

63.1%

24.5%

1.5%

1.1%

68.0%

OH

40.8%

47.4%

3.8%

2.4%

5.7%

62.5%

OK

28.3%

35.6%

28.4%

2.9%

4.8%

68.7%

OR

77.1%

3.1%

6.5%

2.5%

10.8%

17.7%

PA

43.6%

42.8%

9.5%

2.0%

2.1%

57.8%

RI

29.2%

20.3%

45.6%

3.3%

1.5%

62.3%

SC

51.9%

40.2%

1.8%

1.1%

5.0%

21.0%

TN

1.5%

96.1%

2.1%

0.2%

0.2%

1.8%

TX

17.1%

27.6%

51.6%

3.4%

0.3%

70.0%

UT

82.8%

1.5%

9.3%

1.9%

4.5%

16.0%

VA

60.0%

33.2%

4.0%

1.2%

1.6%

26.8%

WI

50.1%

29.6%

14.3%

5.0%

1.0%

46.6%

WY

54.1%

1.2%

2.7%

2.4%

39.6%

38.6%

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Size of Public Charter School Student Population Geographic Locale State

City

Suburb

Town

Rural

National

55.7%

AK

35.5%

25.0%

5.9%

13.5%

2.2%

25.6%

36.7%

AR AZ

33.4%

4.2%

28.7%

33.8%

58.4%

22.2%

8.2%

11.3%

CA

49.9%

29.5%

7.4%

13.2%

CO

35.2%

33.0%

4.6%

27.1%

CT

84.5%

13.2%

0.0%

2.3%

DC

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

DE

39.5%

38.5%

0.0%

22.0%

FL

26.2%

46.6%

4.2%

23.1%

GA

26.0%

54.3%

1.0%

18.7%

HI

32.8%

12.2%

17.4%

37.6%

IA

77.5%

0.0%

6.3%

16.2%

ID

38.7%

11.0%

10.0%

40.3%

IL

87.4%

4.1%

0.0%

8.5%

IN

86.1%

5.4%

2.0%

6.5%

KS

34.3%

1.5%

7.9%

56.3%

LA

85.1%

0.3%

3.6%

11.1%

MA

53.4%

40.9%

0.9%

4.8%

MD

83.4%

13.4%

0.0%

3.3%

MI

52.8%

33.9%

2.6%

10.7%

MN

63.1%

16.4%

10.2%

10.3%

MO

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

MS

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

100.0%

NC

32.2%

15.6%

16.0%

36.2%

NH

0.0%

39.8%

24.7%

35.5%

NJ

48.3%

50.4%

0.0%

1.3%

NM

51.2%

19.1%

10.6%

19.1%

NV

77.8%

8.5%

1.0%

12.7%

NY

87.9%

4.4%

0.0%

7.7%

OH

73.7%

13.5%

4.9%

7.8%

OK

90.0%

0.0%

0.0%

10.0%

OR

22.0%

24.2%

16.5%

37.3%

PA

55.6%

31.0%

10.5%

2.9%

RI

60.9%

28.1%

0.0%

11.1%

SC

65.0%

9.2%

7.7%

18.1%

TN

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

TX

82.4%

9.4%

2.4%

5.7%

UT

12.8%

48.2%

10.7%

28.3%

VA

83.5%

16.5%

0.0%

0.0%

WI

74.9%

5.6%

12.8%

6.7%

WY

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

100.0%

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Size of Public Charter School Student Population Grade Configuration State

Elementary Schools

Middle Schools

Middle/High Schools

High Schools

Elementary/Middle/High Schools

National

45.8%

AK

58.4%

7.9%

9.1%

16.7%

20.4%

0.8%

11.1%

0.0%

29.7%

AR

43.4%

34.9%

0.9%

20.9%

0.0%

AZ

50.4%

3.3%

8.8%

24.5%

13.1%

CA

33.8%

10.2%

14.6%

19.6%

21.8%

CO

51.5%

5.2%

3.2%

11.0%

29.1%

CT

43.0%

19.0%

5.6%

7.9%

24.5%

DC

55.4%

14.9%

10.4%

16.1%

3.2%

DE

59.1%

4.9%

5.2%

23.9%

6.9%

FL

56.4%

15.5%

4.9%

19.7%

3.6%

GA

53.7%

17.9%

0.5%

25.6%

2.4%

HI

44.3%

4.8%

6.3%

0.0%

44.5%

IA

61.0%

0.0%

0.0%

39.0%

0.0%

ID

24.9%

1.3%

4.5%

10.7%

58.6%

IL

27.7%

3.2%

14.3%

25.0%

29.9%

IN

57.1%

4.4%

6.8%

10.3%

21.4%

KS

63.6%

0.6%

12.1%

23.8%

0.0%

LA

53.9%

7.7%

3.7%

18.1%

16.5%

MA

34.4%

11.1%

22.0%

5.8%

26.6%

MD

70.6%

11.6%

13.9%

3.9%

0.0%

MI

63.7%

3.2%

4.2%

10.6%

18.3%

MN

50.1%

5.0%

15.3%

19.7%

9.8%

MO

69.5%

5.3%

11.2%

14.0%

0.0%

MS

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

NC

50.2%

4.3%

8.2%

4.0%

33.3%

NH

36.4%

9.9%

0.0%

53.7%

0.0%

NJ

64.1%

10.3%

7.1%

11.0%

7.6%

NM

29.3%

7.3%

21.6%

36.4%

5.5%

NV

31.9%

3.7%

11.4%

27.0%

25.9%

NY

65.6%

12.7%

7.6%

5.4%

8.7%

OH

42.5%

2.7%

5.8%

11.9%

37.0%

OK

18.0%

24.3%

16.3%

33.6%

7.8%

OR

38.8%

5.5%

4.9%

10.7%

40.0%

PA

29.5%

3.3%

9.5%

11.1%

46.6%

RI

54.1%

0.0%

0.0%

25.1%

20.8%

SC

23.8%

6.4%

5.2%

42.4%

22.2%

TN

27.0%

33.2%

25.5%

14.3%

0.0%

TX

38.1%

6.8%

14.0%

15.7%

25.4%

UT

45.2%

1.5%

3.8%

14.2%

35.2%

VA

0.0%

38.8%

0.0%

61.2%

0.0%

WI

56.7%

10.1%

3.1%

27.0%

3.2%

WY

57.3%

0.0%

0.0%

42.7%

0.0%

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Growth of Public Charter Schools Public Charter Schools State

# of Charter Schools

Charter Schools as a % of Total # of Public Schools

National

4,618

4.8%

AK

25

4.9%

AR

30

2.7%

AZ

447

22.4%

CA

733

7.4%

CO

151

8.5%

CT

18

1.6%

DC

97

41.3%

DE

18

8.0%

FL

396

12.2%

GA

116

5.2%

HI

31

10.7%

IA

6

0.4%

ID

31

4.2%

IL

95

2.2%

IN

49

2.2%

KS

34

2.4%

LA

64

4.3%

MA

61

3.3%

MD

34

2.3%

MI

232

6.2%

MN

180

8.1%

MO

41

1.8%

MS

1

0.1%

NC

97

3.9%

NH

12

2.5%

NJ

66

2.7%

NM

67

8.2%

NV

30

4.7%

NY

124

2.7%

OH

332

8.3%

OK

16

0.9%

OR

87

6.6%

PA

129

4.0%

RI

11

3.5%

SC

34

2.9%

TN

16

0.9%

TX

417

5.0%

UT

66

7.1%

VA

4

0.2%

WI

217

9.5%

WY

3

0.9%

# of Charters & Campuses

Washington, D.C. has 62 charters on 97 campuses

Illinois has 39 charters on 95 campuses

Missouri has 30 charters on 41 campuses

Texas has 215 charters on 417 campuses

17

Growth of Public Charter Schools Growth of Public Charter Schools State

# of Closed Charters Schools,

# of New Charter Schools, Opened Fall 2008

Net Gain of Charter Schools, 2008-2009

Growth in # of Charter Schools,

National

142

491

349

8.1%

Spring 2008

2008-2009

AK

0

2

2

8.7%

AR

1

7

6

25.0%

AZ

22

38

16

3.5%

CA

28

74

46

6.7%

CO

2

11

9

6.4%

CT

0

2

2

12.5%

DC

4

19

15

18.8%

DE

1

2

1

5.9%

FL

18

54

36

10.0%

GA

3

48

45

63.4%

HI

0

3

3

10.7%

IA

0

0

0

0.0%

ID

1

2

1

3.3%

IL

0

13

13

14.6%

IN

0

9

9

22.5%

KS

2

6

4

13.3%

LA

0

12

12

23.1%

MA

1

1

0

0.0%

MD

0

4

4

13.3%

MI

8

7

-1

-0.4%

MN

1

14

13

7.7%

MO

1

3

2

5.1%

MS

0

0

0

0.0%

NC

3

2

-1

-1.0%

NH

1

2

1

9.1% 10.0%

NJ

0

6

6

NM

1

4

3

4.8%

NV

0

3

3

12.0%

NY

2

26

24

24.7%

OH

14

20

6

1.9%

OK

0

1

1

6.7%

OR

8

13

5

6.1%

PA

1

3

2

1.6%

RI

0

0

0

0.0%

SC

2

7

5

17.2%

TN

0

4

4

33.3%

TX

2

52

50

13.5%

UT

0

8

8

13.8%

VA

0

1

1

33.3%

WI

15

8

-7

-3.1%

WY

0

0

0

0.0%

18

Growth of Public Charter Schools Market Share: Top 100 School Districts State

Distict/Community Name

2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006

# Charter School Students

# of Public School Students (Charter

Market Share %

Rank

Market Share %

Rank

Market Share %

Rank

and Traditional)

LA

New Orleans Public School System

17,925

32,887

54.50

1

56.65

1

68.59

1

DC

District of Columbia Public Schools

22,175

72,445

30.61

2

26.53

4

25.00

3

MI

Southfield Public School District

3,638

13,010

27.96

3

27.44

2

18.39

8

OH

Dayton Public Schools

6,252

22,493

27.80

4

27.06

3

28.03

2

MI

Pontiac School District

2,649

10,811

24.50

5

22.99

5

19.79

7

OH

Youngstown City Schools

2,663

10,945

24.33

6

22.84

6

20.10

5

AZ

Phoenix Union High School District

7,901

34,351

23.00

7

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

MO

Kansas City, Missouri School District

7,134

31,583

22.59

8

19.82

8

20.04

6

MI

Detroit Public Schools

30,433

135,987

22.38

9

20.03

7

17.56

10

TX

City of San Antonio

13,015

58,903

22.10

10

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

AZ

Tempe Union High School District

3,714

17,416

21.33

11

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

OH

Cleveland City Schools

12,674

62,849

20.17

12

17.43

11

15.54

16

MO

Saint Louis Public Schools

7,726

39,861

19.38

13

14.57

19

10.83

37

OH

Toledo Public Schools

6,428

34,557

18.60

14

17.79

9

17.85

9

MN

Minneapolis Public Schools

7,755

42,069

18.43

15

13.87

20

12.61

23

WI

Milwaukee Public Schools

16,965

92,106

18.42

16

16.76

13

15.63

13

CA

Grant Joint Union High School District

2,600

14,278

18.21

17

10.83

34

9.12

51

IN

Gary Community School Corporation

3,047

17,125

17.79

18

*

*

*

*

CA

Chula Vista Elementary School District

4,842

27,251

17.77

19

17.45

10

17.53

11

CO

Brighton School District 27J

2,232

12,668

17.62

20

15.05

17

15.62

15

NY

Buffalo Public Schools

7,141

40,853

17.48

21

15.90

14

15.62

14

NY

City School District of Albany

1,720

10,056

17.10

22

14.89

18

11.61

31

CA

Oakland Unified School District

7,620

46,447

16.41

23

15.33

16

13.85

20

OH

Cincinnati Public Schools

6,794

41,612

16.33

24

16.79

12

16.54

12

NJ

Camden City Public Schools

2,545

15,650

16.26

25

13.17

21

10.88

36

MI

Dearborn Public Schools

3,505

21,659

16.18

26

15.84

15

14.29

19

PA

The School District of Philadelphia

32,557

205,261

15.86

27

13.01

23

12.08

27

AZ

Mesa Public Schools

13,665

86,719

15.76

28

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

MI

Taylor School District

1,736

11,316

15.34

29

9.77

46

*

*

WI

Oshkosh Area School District

1,518

10,330

14.70

30

6.62

89

*

*

OH

Columbus City Schools

9,259

63,501

14.58

31

12.99

24

10.62

39

DE

Christina School District

2,924

20,216

14.46

32

10.38

38

8.14

57

WI

Appleton Area School District

2,143

15,233

14.07

33

12.56

29

9.13

50

MN

Saint Paul Public Schools

6,137

45,187

13.58

34

13.06

22

11.68

30

CO

Academy School District 20

2,917

21,500

13.57

35

*

*

12.64

22

MI

Saginaw Public Schools

1,491

11,102

13.43

36

12.78

26

11.76

28

CO

Weld County School District 6

2,460

18,434

13.34

37

12.30

30

11.74

29

CA

Natomas Unified School District

1,513

11,405

13.27

38

*

*

*

*

AZ

Tucson Unified School District

9,071

68,400

13.26

39

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

CA

Napa Valley Unified School District

2,319

17,557

13.21

40

12.74

28

12.51

24

CA

Vista Unified School District

3,563

27,006

13.19

41

*

*

8.82

53

AZ

Flagstaff Unified School District

1,672

12,838

13.02

42

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Notes:

N/A: Data not available for school districts in this academic year

*: School district did not make the top 100 in this academic year

19

Growth of Public Charter Schools Market Share: Top 100 School Districts (Continued) State

IN


2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006



Market Share %

Rank

Market Share %

Rank

and Traditional)

Market Share %

Rank

Indianapolis Public Schools

4,974

40,231

12.36

43

10.14

43

7.58

62

MN

Duluth Public Schools

1,399

11,547

12.12

44

11.71

32

11.13

34

AZ

Dysart Unified School District

3,201

26,602

12.03

45

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

AZ

Gilbert Public Schools

5,169

43,708

11.83

46

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

TX

City of Houston

25,244

213,604

11.82

47

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

CO

Pueblo City Schools

2,154

18,293

11.77

48

8.36

62

7.56

63

FL

Lake County Schools

4,758

40,710

11.69

49

12.22

31

10.41

40

NJ

Trenton Public Schools

1,514

12,960

11.68

50

10.56

36

9.63

44

AZ

Glendale Union High School District

1,958

17,024

11.50

51

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

AZ

Yuma School District

1,298

11,753

11.04

52

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

OK

Oklahoma City Public Schools

4,479

40,985

10.93

53

9.02

53

8.04

58

AZ

Kyrene School District

2,235

20,518

10.89

54

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

MI

Flint Community Schools

2,054

18,871

10.88

55

10.20

42

9.17

48

AZ

Litchfield Elementary School District

1,156

10,718

10.79

56

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

CO

Falcon School District 49

1,385

12,862

10.77

57

8.12

64

*

*

CA

San Diego Unified School District

14,189

131,918

10.76

58

10.26

39

9.62

45

CA

San Juan Unified School District

4,987

47,466

10.51

59

9.69

47

9.01

52

CO

Harrison School District 2

1,157

11,205

10.33

60

*

*

9.75

43

FL

Polk County Public Schools

9,458

94,164

10.04

61

9.94

44

9.88

42

NJ

Jersey City Public Schools

2,987

31,106

9.60

62

9.25

51

10.17

41

FL

The School District of Lee County

7,722

80,541

9.59

63

8.66

57

6.88

72

CO

Denver Public Schools

7,014

73,348

9.56

64

8.59

60

8.32

56

WI

Sheboygan Area School District

995

10,445

9.53

65

*

*

*

*

AZ

Deer Valley Unified School District

3,733

40,605

9.19

66

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

MI

Kalamazoo Public Schools

1,186

13,018

9.11

67

9.64

49

10.89

35

NJ

The Newark Public Schools

4,049

44,556

9.09

68

7.87

66

6.97

70

OH

Akron Public Schools

2,585

28,568

9.05

69

7.84

67

6.97

69

NM

Santa Fe Public Schools

1,212

13,558

8.94

70

7.79

70

5.87

94

UT

Nebo School District

2,586

29,174

8.86

71

9.65

48

7.02

68

MI

Traverse City Area Public Schools

1,050

11,898

8.83

72

7.74

72

*

*

CO

Colorado Springs School District 11

2,664

30,237

8.81

73

7.79

69

6.80

74

PA

Pittsburgh Public Schools

2,668

30,348

8.79

74

8.52

61

7.76

60

FL

School District of Osceola County

4,634

52,742

8.79

75

8.99

55

9.14

49

TX

City of Dallas

15,043

172,199

8.74

76

8.60

59

7.05

66

TX

City of Donna

1,338

15,369

8.71

77

6.57

92

6.77

77

AZ

Sunnyside Unified School District

1,685

19,391

8.69

78

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

AZ

Amphitheater Unified School District

1,510

17,909

8.43

79

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

CA

Burbank Unified School District

1,399

16,654

8.40

80

*

*

7.93

59

CA

William S. Hart Union High School District

2,105

25,265

8.33

81

7.64

73

6.78

76

CA

Sacramento City Unified School District

3,986

48,302

8.25

82

9.02

54

9.39

47

MI

Warren Consolidated Schools

1,450

17,704

8.19

83

10.26

40

12.09

26

OH

Canton City Schools

889

10,958

8.11

84

8.04

65

8.72

54

20

Notes:



Growth of Public Charter Schools Market Share: Top 100 School Districts (Continued) State


2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006



Market Share %

Rank

Market Share %

Rank

Market Share %

Rank

and Traditional)

ID

Nampa School District

1,277

15,949

8.01

85

7.80

68

*

*

WI

School District of Waukesha

1,076

13,503

7.97

86

*

*

*

*

DE

Red Clay Consolidated School District

1,355

17,076

7.94

87

7.27

76

6.10

85

DE

Colonial School District

897

11,327

7.92

88

7.78

71

*

*

5,020

63,685

7.88

89

8.82

56

*

*

855

10,893

7.85

90

*

*

*

*

UT

Alpine School District

NC

Rutherford County Schools

MA

Boston Public Schools

4,763

61,374

7.76

91

8.12

63

6.80

75

OR

North Clackamas Schools

1,361

17,579

7.74

92

*

*

*

*

CO

Boulder Valley School District Re-2

2,202

28,704

7.67

93

7.30

75

7.05

67

MA

Worcester Public Schools

1,940

25,454

7.62

94

7.27

77

6.38

82

CA

Ceres Unified School District

949

12,480

7.60

95

7.15

81

*

*

MA

Springfield Public Schools

2,049

27,524

7.44

96

6.30

99

6.00

89

MI

Ann Arbor Public Schools

1,339

18,085

7.40

97

6.81

83

5.93

92

CA

Orange Unified School District

2,208

30,134

7.33

98

7.22

80

6.94

71

NC

Durham Public Schools

2,510

34,297

7.32

99

*

*

5.77

95

AZ

Cartwright Elementary School District

1,612

22,074

7.30

100

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Notes:



Number of School Districts with 10% or More Charter School Market Share State

2005-2006

2006-2007

2007-2008

State

2005-2006

2006-2007

2007-2008

National

41

43

AK

0

0

62

MN

3

3

3

0

MO

2

2

2

AR

0

AZ

3

0

0

MS

0

0

0

3

11

NC

0

0

0

CA

7

7

9

NH

0

0

0

CO

4

2

6

NJ

2

2

2

CT

0

0

0

NM

0

0

0

DC

1

1

1

NV

0

0

0

DE

0

1

1

NY

2

2

2

FL

1

1

2

OH

6

6

6

GA

0

0

0

OK

0

0

1

HI

0

0

0

OR

0

0

0

IA

0

0

0

PA

1

2

1

ID

0

0

0

RI

0

0

0

IL

0

0

0

SC

0

0

0

IN

0

1

2

TN

0

0

0

KS

0

0

0

TX

0

0

2

LA

1

1

1

UT

0

0

0

MA

0

0

0

VA

0

0

0

MD

0

0

0

WI

1

2

3

MI

7

7

7

WY

0

0

0

21

Public Charter School Characteristics Average Number of Years Open (2008-2009) State

Average # of Years Open

Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

National

5.9

30.7%

27.8%

20.7%

20.8%

AK

7.6

12.5%

37.5%

4.2%

45.8%

AR

3.8

50.0%

30.0%

20.0%

0.0%

AZ

6.7

17.0%

33.1%

24.1%

25.8%

CA

6.1

33.5%

27.5%

18.0%

21.0%

CO

6.6

27.2%

17.9%

17.9%

37.1%

CT

8.4

22.2%

11.1%

5.6%

61.1%

DC

4.4

52.4%

19.4%

6.8%

21.4%

DE

6.8

33.3%

11.1%

33.3%

22.2%

FL

5.7

31.6%

29.8%

21.2%

17.4%

GA

3.1

69.8%

14.7%

12.1%

3.4%

HI

7.4

12.9%

6.5%

74.2%

6.5%

IA

3.2

50.0%

50.0%

0.0%

0.0%

ID

5.0

29.0%

48.4%

9.7%

12.9%

IL

5.3

45.0%

20.0%

10.0%

25.0%

IN

4.0

46.9%

30.6%

22.4%

0.0%

KS

3.7

47.1%

41.2%

11.8%

0.0%

LA

3.9

64.1%

17.2%

9.4%

9.4%

MA

8.4

12.2%

24.5%

16.3%

46.9%

MD

3.0

58.8%

41.2%

0.0%

0.0%

MI

7.8

8.1%

28.0%

10.7%

53.1%

MN

6.0

22.9%

34.1%

19.6%

23.5%

MO

5.3

56.1%

0.0%

12.2%

31.7%

MS

10.0

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

100.0%

NC

8.9

11.0%

9.0%

27.0%

53.0%

NH

2.6

75.0%

25.0%

0.0%

0.0%

NJ

6.8

21.9%

9.4%

68.8%

0.0%

NM

5.0

35.8%

29.9%

34.3%

0.0%

NV

4.5

50.0%

20.0%

20.0%

10.0%

NY

4.2

37.9%

37.1%

25.0%

0.0%

OH

5.4

24.2%

42.6%

23.9%

9.2%

OK

6.6

18.8%

25.0%

56.3%

0.0%

OR

4.1

43.7%

35.6%

20.7%

0.0%

PA

7.2

12.4%

23.3%

31.8%

32.6%

RI

7.6

0.0%

20.0%

70.0%

10.0%

SC

4.5

35.3%

47.1%

14.7%

2.9%

TN

3.8

31.3%

68.8%

0.0%

0.0%

TX

6.1

33.5%

17.6%

21.1%

27.8%

UT

4.0

46.3%

38.8%

14.9%

0.0%

VA

6.0

25.0%

0.0%

75.0%

0.0%

WI

4.9

40.6%

28.7%

22.1%

8.6%

WY

5.3

0.0%

66.7%

33.3%

0.0%

22

Public Charter School Characteristics Public Charter Schools by Management Organizations (2008-2009) State

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

National

77.4%

12.0%

10.6%

AK

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

AR

80.0%

16.7%

3.3%

AZ

63.4%

17.5%

19.1%

CA

82.7%

15.3%

2.0%

CO

90.0%

1.3%

8.7%

CT

77.8%

22.2%

0.0%

DC

67.9%

23.9%

8.3%

DE

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

FL

80.1%

5.8%

14.1%

GA

91.4%

1.7%

6.9%

HI

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

IA

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

ID

93.5%

0.0%

6.5%

IL

54.4%

40.8%

4.9%

IN

69.4%

20.4%

10.2%

KS

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

LA

85.9%

9.4%

4.7%

MA

95.1%

1.6%

3.3%

MD

88.2%

2.9%

8.8%

MI

43.7%

3.3%

53.0%

MN

97.2%

0.6%

2.2%

MO

56.1%

2.4%

41.5%

MS

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

NC

92.0%

2.0%

6.0%

NH

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

NJ

90.8%

9.2%

0.0%

NM

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

NV

90.0%

0.0%

10.0%

NY

69.7%

21.3%

9.0%

OH

57.1%

20.4%

22.5%

OK

93.8%

6.3%

0.0%

OR

92.0%

6.9%

1.1%

PA

84.8%

6.8%

8.3%

RI

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

SC

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

TN

87.5%

12.5%

0.0%

TX

69.3%

27.6%

3.2%

UT

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

VA

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

WI

98.6%

0.0%

1.4%

WY

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

23

Public Charter School Performance and Accountability AYP (2007-2008) State

Charter Schools Making AYP


National

61.2%

63.2%

AK

69.6%

59.0%

AZ

73.0%

73.0%

AR

88.2%

66.0%

CA

56.4%

52.0%

CO

72.7%

57.0%

CT

28.6%

59.0%

DE

70.6%

70.0%

DC

35.1%

32.0%

FL

40.5%

23.9%

GA

77.8%

80.0%

HI

29.6%

42.0%

ID

82.1%

56.0%

IL

47.2%

67.0%

IN

42.1%

50.0%

IA

N/A

N/A

KS

76.5%

90.0%

LA

73.1%

93.0%

MD

70.0%

N/A

MA

75.9%

63.0%

MI

76.4%

80.0%

MN

43.4%

51.2%

MS

100.0%

N/A

MO

15.4%

42.0%

NV

72.7%

62.0%

NH

100.0%

43.0%

NJ

66.7%

71.0%

NM

46.4%

46.0%

NY

89.3%

N/A

NC

42.3%

31.0%

OH

38.2%

86.0%

OK

N/A

N/A

OR

63.5%

N/A

PA

60.0%

72.0%

RI

60.0%

73.0%

SC

29.2%

20.0%

TN

100.0%

76.7%

TX

69.4%

75.0%

UT

94.7%

80.0%

VA

100.0%

74.0%

WI

90.4%

95.1%

WY

33.3%

75.0%

Notes:

24

N/A: Data not available.

Public Charter School Performance and Accountability Mean ACT Score (2006-2007) State

Charter School Mean ACT Score

Public School (Charter & Traditional) Mean ACT Score

National

18.6

20.3

AK

N/A

N/A

AR

22.1

20.8

AZ

N/A

N/A

CA

20.9

20.9

CO

N/A

N/A

CT

N/A

N/A

DC

N/A

N/A

DE

N/A

N/A

FL

19.6

19.7

GA

20.5

20.3

HI

N/A

N/A

IA

N/A

N/A

ID

N/A

N/A

IL

16.3

20.3

IN

25.9

21.8

KS

N/A

N/A

LA

19.6

20.1

MA

N/A

N/A

MD

N/A

N/A

MI

15.7

18.8

MN

N/A

N/A

MO

*

21.6

MS

N/A

N/A

NC

N/A

N/A

NH

N/A

N/A

NJ

N/A

N/A

NM

20.1

19.2

NV

N/A

N/A

NY

N/A

N/A

OH

N/A

N/A

OK

21.2

20.6

OR

N/A

N/A

PA

N/A

N/A

RI

N/A

N/A

SC

19.2

18.7

TN

14.7

20.7

TX

18.2

19.6

UT

N/A

N/A

VA

N/A

N/A

WI

N/A

N/A

WY

*

21.6

Notes:

N/A: Data not available

*: Charter schools do not have data

25

Public Charter School Performance and Accountability Mean SAT Score (2006-2007) State

Charter School Mean SAT Score

Public School (Charter & Traditional) Mean SAT Score

National

1395

1451

AK

N/A

N/A

AR

N/A

N/A

AZ

N/A

N/A

CA

1423

1497

CO

N/A

N/A

CT

1178

1446

DC

N/A

N/A

DE

N/A

N/A

FL

1397

1463

GA

1410

1458

HI

N/A

N/A

IA

N/A

N/A

ID

N/A

N/A

IL

N/A

N/A

IN

1776

1444

KS

N/A

N/A

LA

N/A

N/A

MA

1423

1468

MD

N/A

N/A

MI

N/A

N/A

MN

N/A

N/A

MO

N/A

N/A

MS

N/A

N/A

NC

1427

1486

NH

N/A

N/A

NJ

1137

1489

NM

1563

1548

NV

N/A

N/A

NY

N/A

N/A

OH

N/A

N/A

OK

N/A

N/A

OR

N/A

N/A

PA

1247

1408

RI

1236

1450

SC

1416

1405

TN

N/A

N/A

TX

1414

1443

UT

N/A

N/A

VA

N/A

N/A

WI

N/A

N/A

WY

N/A

N/A

Notes:

26

N/A: Data not available

Public Charter School Policy Environment States with Public Charter School Laws (2008-2009) State

State Has Charter Law

State

State Has Charter Law

AK

Yes

MS

Yes

AL

No

MT

No

AR

Yes

NC

Yes

AZ

Yes

ND

No

CA

Yes

NE

No

CO

Yes

NH

Yes

CT

Yes

NJ

Yes

DC

Yes

NM

Yes

DE

Yes

NV

Yes

FL

Yes

NY

Yes

GA

Yes

OH

Yes

HI

Yes

OK

Yes

IA

Yes

OR

Yes

ID

Yes

PA

Yes

IL

Yes

RI

Yes

IN

Yes

SC

Yes

KS

Yes

SD

No

KY

No

TN

Yes

LA

Yes

TX

Yes

MA

Yes

UT

Yes

MD

Yes

VA

Yes

ME

No

VT

No

MI

Yes

WA

No

MN

Yes

WI

Yes

MO

Yes

WV

No

WY

Yes

States that Provide Funding for Public Charter School Facilities (2008-2009) State

State Provides Funding

State


State


AK

No

IL

No

NV

No

AR

No

IN

No

NY

Yes

AZ

Yes

KS

No

OH

No

CA

Yes

LA

No

OK

Yes

CO

Yes

MA

Yes

OR

No

CT

Yes

MD

No

PA

Yes

DC

Yes

MI

No

RI

No

DE

No

MN

Yes

SC

No

FL

Yes

MO

No

TN

No

GA

Yes

MS

No

TX

No

HI

No

NC

No

UT

Yes

IA

No

NH

No

VA

No

ID

No

NJ

No

WI

No

NM

Yes

WY

No

27

Public Charter School Policy Environment States with State-Imposed Caps of Public Charter Schools (2008-2009) State

State-Imposed Cap

Description of Cap

AK

Yes

60 charters statewide

AR

Yes

24 start-up charters

AZ

No

CA

Yes

1250 charters with an increase of 100 additional charters annually

CO

No

CT

Yes

Limits student enrollment: 250 students or 25% of the district; 300 students or 25% of district for K8 schools; 85 students per grade for charters with demonstrated record of acheivement

DC

Yes

20 new charters per year

DE

Yes

One year moratorium expiring 2009

FL

No

GA

No

HI

Yes

25 conversion charters; 23 start-up charters

IA

Yes

20 conversion charters with only one per district allowed

ID

Yes

6 charters per year with a limit of one per district

IL

Yes

60 charters statewide: 30 allowed in Chicago, 15 in Chicago suburbs, and 15 downstate The mayor of Indianapolis may approve no more than 5 charters annually

IN

Yes

KS

No

LA

Yes

70 charter schools statewide. Charters authorized in the statewide recovery school district by the state board of education, however, are exempt from this cap. 120 charters: 48 Horace Mann charters and 72 commonwealth charters

MA

Yes

MD

No

MI

Yes

MN

No

MO

Yes

MS

Yes


NC

Yes

100 charters with 5 allowed per district

NH

Yes

Under pilot program the state may grant 20 charters by 2013 (however there is a moratorium on new charters until June 30, 2009); Local school board and state board allowed to approve 10 charters

NJ

No

NM

Yes

150 allowed to be authorized by state universities with no more than 50% per university

Charters only allowed in Kansas City and St. Louis school districts

15 start-up charters and 5 conversion charters per year; A charter may not enroll more that 10% of the total number of students in the district

NV

No

NY

Yes


OH

Yes

60 charters with 30 authorized by the district and 30 by a non-district entity

OK

Yes

6 charters per year; Charters allowed only in Oklahoma and Tulsa County

OR

No

PA

No

RI

Yes

SC

No

20 charters with schools enrolling no more than 4% of state’s students

TN

Yes

50 charters with 20 in Memphis and 4 in Shelby County; Types of students enrolled are specified in the law

TX

Yes


UT

Yes

Total number of students enrolled may increase by only 1.4% annually

VA

No

WI

Yes

WY

No

28

UW-Parkside may sponsor only one school in Racine with a maximum of 480 students enrolled

Public Charter School Policy Environment Active Public Charter School Authorizers (2008-2009) State

Local School District

State Education Agency

Independent Charter Board

Municipal Government Office

Higher Education Institution

Not-For-Profit Organization

AK

P

—

—

—

—

—

AR

—

P

—

—

—

—

AZ

P

—

P

—

—

—

CA

P

P

—

—

—

—

CO

P

—

P

—

—

—

CT

—

P

—

—

—

—

DC

—

—

P

—

—

—

DE

P

P

—

—

—

—

FL

P

—

P

—

P

—

GA

P

P

—

—

—

—

HI

—

P

—

—

—

—

IA

P

—

—

—

—

—

ID

P

—

P

—

—

—

IL

P

P

—

—

—

—

IN

—

—

—

P

P

—

KS

P

—

—

—

—

—

LA

P

P

—

—

—

—

MA

—

P

—

—

—

—

MD

P

—

—

—

—

—

MI

P

—

—

—

P

—

MN

P

—

—

—

P

P

MO

P

P

—

—

P

—

MS

—

P

—

—

—

—

NC

—

P

—

—

—

—

NH

—

P

—

—

—

—

NJ

—

P

—

—

—

—

NM

P

P

—

—

—

—

NV

P

P

—

—

—

—

NY

P

P

—

—

P

—

OH

P

—

—

—

P

P

OK

P

—

—

—

P

—

OR

P

P

—

—

—

—

PA

P

P

—

—

—

—

RI

—

P

—

—

—

—

SC

P

—

P

—

—

—

TN

P

—

—

—

—

—

TX

—

P

—

—

—

—

UT

—

P

—

—

—

—

VA

P

—

—

—

—

—

WI

P

—

—

P

P

—

WY

P

—

—

—

—

—

29

State Dashboards

Alaska Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

2,300

1.7%

‘00-‘01

2,594

1.9%

‘01-‘02

2,327

1.7%

‘02-‘03

2,577

1.9%

‘03-‘04

3,476

2.6%

‘04-‘05

4,108

3.1%

‘05-‘06

4,660

3.5%

‘06-‘07

4,643

3.5%

‘07-‘08

4,772

3.6%

‘08-‘09

5,207

4.0%

Year


‘08-‘09

10.3%

Student Ethnic Demographic (2008-2009)

Student Residence Breakdown

White

Rural

36.7%

Other

35.5%

Elementary

25.6%

Asian Hispanic

Black

5.2%

Suburb

2.3%

2.2%

58.4%

Middle/High 11.1%


‘99-‘00

18

3.6%

‘00-‘01

19

3.7%

‘01-‘02

15

2.9%

‘02-‘03

15

2.9%

‘03-‘04

19

3.7%

‘04-‘05

21

4.2%

‘05-‘06

23

4.6%

‘06-‘07

23

4.6%

‘07-‘08

23

4.5%

‘08-‘09

25

4.9%

# of Closed Schools, Spring ‘08

# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08

Growth in # of Schools

0

2

8.7%

‘08-‘09

Districts with Highest % of Students (2007-2008)

29.7%

City

Town

1%

2.8%

(2008-2009)

Elementary, Middle, High

65.8%

Schools

Year

Student School Level Breakdown

(2006-2007)

Year

Middle 0.8%

District/ Community Name

Students

Public School Students (Charter

Charter %

Anchorage School District

2,025

48,857

4.1%

Mat-Su Borough School District

664

16,159

4.1%

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

485

14,227

3.4%

and Traditional)

Performance & Accountability Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

60.9%

70.0%

‘06-‘07

82.6%

66.0%

‘07-‘08

69.6%

59.0%

Policy Environment Year Public Charter School Law Passed

1995

State-Imposed Cap on Charter Schools

Yes*

State Provides Funding for Charter School Facilities Active Authorizers

School Characteristics Year

Avg. # of Years Open

Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

7.6

12.5%

37.5%

4.2%

45.8%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

No 8 Local School Districts

* 60 charters statewide

33

Arizona Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

31,176

3.7%

‘00-‘01

45,596

5.2%

‘01-‘02

61,571

6.7%

‘02-‘03

56,636

6.1%

‘03-‘04

81,725

8.1%

‘04-‘05

87,198

8.4%

‘05-‘06

90,597

8.3%

‘06-‘07

93,881

8.8%

‘07-‘08

101,278

8.8%

‘08-‘09

90,992

8.9%

Year

Estimated % of Schools with Waiting Lists


‘08-‘09

55%

61.1%




(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

City Town 58.4%

White

11.3%

32.8%

Suburb

Other 4.8%

Asian 3.8%

Black

Town

7.2%

8.2%

8.8%

3.3%

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

75.1%

67.0%

‘06-‘07

73.3%

72.0%

‘07-‘08

73.0%

73.0% Avg. Annual Growth, Reading

Year

Charter

All Public

Charter

All Public

‘06-‘07

24.04

25

14.92

16

‘07-‘08

21.63

22.63

15.35

15.19


1994


No

State Provides Funding for Charter School Facilities

Yes

Active Authorizers

34

‘00-‘01

310

18.2%

‘01-‘02

370

20.6%

‘02-‘03

325

17.5%

‘03-‘04

505

25.1%

‘04-‘05

498

24.4%

‘05-‘06

501

24.3%

‘06-‘07

464

24.2%

‘07-‘08

453

22.2%

‘08-‘09

447

22.4%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


22

38

3.5%

‘08-‘09

Districts with Highest % of Students (2007-2008) Public School Students (Charter

Charter %

7,901

34,351

23.0%

Tempe Union High School District

3,714

17,416

21.3%

Mesa Public Schools

13,665

86,719

15.8%

Tucson Unified School District

9,071

68,400

13.3%

Flagstaff Unified School District

1,672

12,838

13.0%

and Traditional)

School Characteristics

14.9%

High

Performance & Accountability

Avg. Annual Growth, Math

245

Phoenix Union High School District

Elementary, Middle, High Middle/High Middle 13.1%

‘99-‘00

50.4%

24.5%

22.2%


Students

Rural

Hispanic

Schools


Elementary

8.2%

51.3%

Year

5 Local School Districts; Independent Charter Board

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.7

17.0%

33.1%

24.1%

25.8%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

63.4%

17.5%

19.1%

Arkansas Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

708

0.2%

‘01-‘02

1,083

0.2%

‘02-‘03

899

0.2%

‘03-‘04

2,719

0.6%

‘04-‘05

3,296

0.7%

‘05-‘06

4,006

0.8%

‘06-‘07

4,300

0.9%

‘07-‘08

5,361

1.1%

‘08-‘09

3,835

0.8%

Year


‘08-‘09

24.4%



Rural

White

53.0%

33.8%

Black

43.4%

39.4%

High

20.9%

Town

28.7%

Other 0.1%

Asian

Hispanic

4.5%

Suburb

3.0%

Middle 34.9%

Middle/High 0.9%

4.2%

‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

3

0.3%

‘01-‘02

6

0.5%

‘02-‘03

7

0.6%

‘03-‘04

13

1.1%

‘04-‘05

17

1.5%

‘05-‘06

19

1.7%

‘06-‘07

18

1.7%

‘07-‘08

24

2.2%

‘08-‘09

30

2.7%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


1

7

25.0%


Elementary

City


‘08-‘09

(2008-2009)

33.4%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

77.8%

73.0%

‘06-‘07

72.2%

70.0%

‘07-‘08

88.2%

66.0%


Students


Charter %

Rogers School District

629

14,119

4.5%

Little Rock School District

777

27,419

2.8%

Pulaski County Special School District

407

18,398

2.2%

and Traditional)



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

3.8

50.0%

30.0%

20.0%

0.0%

Year

Mean ACT Score

Public Schools (Charter & Traditional) Mean ACT Score

‘06-‘07

22.1

20.8

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

80.0%

16.7%

3.3%


1995


Yes*


No State Education Agency

* 24 start-up charters

35

California Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

104,730

1.8%

‘00-‘01

115,582

1.9%

‘01-‘02

132,807

2.2%

‘02-‘03

156,696

2.5%

‘03-‘04

166,208

2.6%

‘04-‘05

177,642

2.8%

‘05-‘06

195,876

3.1%

‘06-‘07

231,004

3.7%

‘07-‘08

254,312

4.1%

‘08-‘09

280,854

4.5%

Year


‘08-‘09

39.5%

Student Ethnic Demographic

Schools


‘99-‘00

238

2.8%

‘00-‘01

302

3.4%

‘01-‘02

350

3.9%

‘02-‘03

409

4.5%

‘03-‘04

444

4.8%

‘04-‘05

494

5.3%

‘05-‘06

542

5.7%

‘06-‘07

622

6.4%

‘07-‘08

687

7.0%

‘08-‘09

733

7.4%

Year


(2008-2009)

Year


(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


28

74

6.7%

‘08-‘09

Districts with Highest % of Students (2007-2008) Black

Middle

Rural

34.6%

13.2%

6.4%

33.8%

49.9%

White

Other

Elementary

City

12.2% Hispanic 41.1%

Asian

10.2%

Suburb

High

29.5%

19.6%


Town

5.8%

7.4%

21.8%

Middle/High 14.6%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

66.1%

66.0%

‘06-‘07

67.7%

67.0%

‘07-‘08

56.4%

52.0%

Mean ACT Score

Students


Charter %

Grant Joint Union High School District

2,600

14278

18.2%

Chula Vista Elementary School District

4,842

27251

17.8%

Oakland Unified School District

7,620

46447

16.4%

Natomas Unified School District

1,513

11405

13.3%

Napa Valley Unified School District

2,319

17557

13.2%

and Traditional)

Mean SAT Score

Year

Charter

All Public

Charter

All Public

‘06-‘07

20.9

20.9

1423

1497

Meeting School-wide Growth Target


Meeting Comparable Improvement Target

Meeting Both Improvement Targets

Charters

Non-Charters

Charters

Non-Charters

Charters

Non-Charters

69.7%

71.6%

72.0%

55.6%

60.2%

52.6%

62.4%

65.8%

61.6%

48.5%

50.2%

45.5%

68.7%

75.5%

64.3%

56.8%

57.1%

54.2%



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.1

33.5%

27.5%

18.0%

21.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

82.7%

15.3%

2.0%


1992



Yes*

Active Authorizers

Yes

231 Local School Districts; State Education Agency *1250 charters with an increase of 100 additional charters annually

36

Colorado Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

17,822

2.5%

‘00-‘01

20,155

2.8%

‘01-‘02

24,658

3.3%

‘02-‘03

28,785

3.8%

‘03-‘04

31,529

4.2%

‘04-‘05

36,932

4.8%

‘05-‘06

44,254

5.7%

‘06-‘07

52,332

6.6%

‘07-‘08

56,772

7.1%

‘08-‘09

61,783

7.5%

Year



‘08-‘09

41,000

27.2%



(2008-2009)


(2006-2007)

White

Rural

61.4%

27.1%

Hispanic

(2008-2009)

Elementary

City

51.5%

35.2%

High

11.0%

Suburb

25.4%


33.0%

29.1%

Other 1%

Asian 3.9%

Black

Town

8.3%

4.6%

Middle 5.2%

‘99-‘00

69

4.4%

‘00-‘01

77

4.7%

‘01-‘02

86

5.2%

‘02-‘03

93

5.5%

‘03-‘04

96

5.7%

‘04-‘05

110

6.5%

‘05-‘06

121

7.1%

‘06-‘07

135

7.8%

‘07-‘08

141

8.7%

‘08-‘09

151

8.5%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


2

11

6.4%

‘08-‘09

Districts with Highest % of Students (2007-2008) District/ Community Name

Students


Charter %

Brighton 27J Academy 20

2,232

10,436

17.6%

2,917

18,583

13.6%

and Traditional)

Greeley 6

2,460

15,974

13.3%

Pueblo City 60

2,154

16,139

11.8%

Falcon 49

1,385

11,477

10.8%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

82.8%

75.0%

‘06-‘07

86.8%

73.0%

‘07-‘08

72.7%

57.0%

Non-Charters with Growth Rates above State Median of the 50th Percentile, Math

‘05-‘06

46.4%

48.8%

‘06-‘07

43.2%

51.5%

‘07-‘08

47.7%

51.0%

Year

Charters with Growth Rates above State Median of the 50th Percentile, Reading

Non-Charters with Growth Rates above State Median of the 50th Percentile, Reading


3.2%

Year

Charters with Growth Rates above State Median of the 50th Percentile, Math

Schools

Middle/High


Year

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.6

27.2%

17.9%

17.9%

37.1%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

90.0%

1.3%

8.7%


1993


No Yes

‘05-‘06

48.2%

47.5%

‘06-‘07

56.0%

51.2%


‘07-‘08

52.3%

49.0%

Active Authorizers


37

Connecticut Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

2,148

0.4%

‘00-‘01

2,429

0.4%

‘01-‘02

2,594

0.5%

‘02-‘03

2,198

0.4%

‘03-‘04

2,222

0.4%

‘04-‘05

2,692

0.5%

‘05-‘06

2,927

0.5%

‘06-‘07

3,577

0.6%

‘07-‘08

4,020

0.7%

‘08-‘09

4,696

0.8%

Year



‘08-‘09

3,321

56.5%




(2006-2007)

Black

(2008-2009)

City

63.5%

Other 0.3%

Asian 1.4%

Rural 2.3%

Suburb 13.2%

Elementary, Middle, High 24.5%

16

1.5%

‘00-‘01

16

1.3%

‘01-‘02

15

1.2%

‘02-‘03

13

1.0%

‘03-‘04

12

1.0%

‘04-‘05

14

1.3%

‘05-‘06

14

1.3%

‘06-‘07

16

1.4%

‘07-‘08

16

1.4%

‘08-‘09

18

1.6%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

2

12.5%

‘08-‘09


7.9%

Middle/High

Middle 19.0%

High

13.7%

‘99-‘00

New Haven Unified School District

43.0%

21.1%


Students

Hispanic White

Schools

District/ Community Name Elementary

84.5%

Year

5.6%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

71.4%

N/A

‘06-‘07

57.1%

N/A

‘07-‘08

28.6%

59.0%


Charter %

1,176

21,005

5.6%

Bridgeport School District

912

21,746

4.2%

Norwalk Public Schools

230

10,821

2.1%

Stamford Public Schools

282

15,168

1.9%

Hartford Public Schools

369

22,758

1.6%

and Traditional)


Year

Mean SAT Score

Public Schools (Charter & Traditional) Mean SAT Score

‘06-‘07

1178

1446

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

8.4

22.2%

11.1%

5.6%

61.1%


1996


Yes *


Yes State Education Agency

* Limits student enrollment: 250 students or 25% of the district; 300 students or 25% of district for K8 schools; 85 students per grade for charters with demonstrated record of acheivement

38

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

77.8%

22.2%

0.0%

Delaware Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

115

0.1%

‘00-‘01

2,716

2.4%

‘01-‘02

4,230

3.7%

‘02-‘03

5,060

4.3%

‘03-‘04

6,241

5.3%

‘04-‘05

6,543

5.5%

‘05-‘06

6,566

5.4%

‘06-‘07

7,576

6.2%

‘07-‘08

8,512

6.9%

‘08-‘09

8,626

6.9%

Year


‘08-‘09

32.4%



(2008-2009)

Rural

White

22.0%

Black

50.0%

59.1%

39.5%

39.8%

Suburb

High

38.5%

Other 0.3%

6.1%

23.9%


Asian Hispanic 3.0%

Middle/High Middle

6.9%

5.2%


‘99-‘00

1

0.5%

‘00-‘01

7

3.7%

‘01-‘02

10

5.1%

‘02-‘03

11

5.5%

‘03-‘04

13

6.4%

‘04-‘05

13

6.0%

‘05-‘06

13

5.9%

‘06-‘07

17

7.3%

‘07-‘08

17

7.8%

‘08-‘09

18

8.0%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


1

2

5.9%

‘08-‘09


Elementary City

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

4.9%



Students


Charter %

Christina School District

2,924

20,216

14.5%

Red Clay Consolidated School District

1,355

17,076

7.9%

Colonial School District

897

11,327

7.9%

Brandywine School District

645

10,758

6.0%

and Traditional)

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

76.9%

N/A


‘06-‘07

70.6%

N/A

Year

‘07-‘08

70.6%

70.0%


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.8

33.3%

11.1%

33.3%

22.2%


1995


Yes*


Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

No 1 Local School District; State Education Agency

* One year moratorium expiring 2009

39

District of Columbia Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

6,432

8.3%

‘00-‘01

6,500

9.4%

‘01-‘02

6,943

9.2%

‘02-‘03

8,644

11.3%

‘03-‘04

12,958

16.6%

‘04-‘05

14,063

18.3%

‘05-‘06

17,260

22.5%

‘06-‘07

15,194

20.9%

‘07-‘08

21,884

30.6%

‘08-‘09

25,724

36.1%

Year


‘08-‘09

25.1%



Black

(2008-2009)

City

83.6%

Elementary

100%

55.4%

High

16.1%

White 2.7%

Other Asian 0.1%

0.9%

Hispanic

Middle

3.2%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

14.6%

N/A

‘06-‘07

31.8%

N/A

‘07-‘08

35.1%

32.0%


1996


Yes*

State Provides Funding for Charter School Facilities Active Authorizers *: 20 new charters per year

40


‘99-‘00

27

14.3%

‘00-‘01

27

14.1%

‘01-‘02

28

14.5%

‘02-‘03

35

17.2%

‘03-‘04

37

18.0%

‘04-‘05

39

18.2%

‘05-‘06

52

22.7%

‘06-‘07

57

2.5%

‘07-‘08

80

32.8%

‘08-‘09

97

41.3%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


4

19

18.8%

‘08-‘09

Top 5 School Districts (2007-2008) District/ Community Name

Students

District of Columbia Public Schools

22,175


Charter %

72,445

30.6%

and Traditional)

14.9%

Elementary Middle/High Middle, High 10.4%

12.8%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Yes Independent Charter Board



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.4

52.4%

19.4%

6.8%

21.4%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

67.9%

23.9%

8.3%

Florida Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

17,251

0.7%

‘00-‘01

26,893

1.1%

‘01-‘02

40,468

1.6%

‘02-‘03

51,708

2.0%

‘03-‘04

67,472

2.6%

‘04-‘05

83,075

3.1%

‘05-‘06

92,335

3.5%

‘06-‘07

99,474

3.7%

‘07-‘08

104,801

4.0%

‘08-‘09

116,983

4.5%

Year


‘08-‘09

29.5%



(2008-2009)

Black

Rural

22.5%

White

23.1%

(2008-2009)

56.4%

Hispanic

42.5%

32.8%

High

Suburb

19.7%

46.6%

Other 0.3%

Asian

Elementary Middle, High

Town

1.9%

4.2%

3.6%

Middle 15.5%

Middle/High 4.9%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

41.7%

N/A

‘06-‘07

46.1%

N/A

‘07-‘08

40.5%

23.9% Mean SAT Score

Year

Charter

All Public

Charter

All Public

‘06-‘07

19.6

19.7

1397

1463


1996


No


Yes

Active Authorizers

‘99-‘00

113

3.5%

‘00-‘01

148

4.5%

‘01-‘02

192

5.6%

‘02-‘03

226

6.5%

‘03-‘04

257

7.5%

‘04-‘05

319

8.7%

‘05-‘06

339

9.4%

‘06-‘07

363

10.0%

‘07-‘08

360

9.1%

‘08-‘09

396

12.2%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


18

54

10.0%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Lake County Schools

4,758

40,710

11.7%

Polk County Public Schools

9,458

94,164

10.0%

The School District of Lee County

7,722

80,541

9.6%

School District of Osceola County

4,634

52,742

8.8%

Broward County Public Schools

17,742

258,895

6.9%

and Traditional)


Mean ACT Score



Elementary

City

26.2%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

5.7

31.6%

29.8%

21.2%

17.4%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

80.1%

5.8%

14.1%

41 Local School Districts; Independent Charter Board; 2 Higher Education Institutions

41

Georgia Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

11,005

0.8%

‘00-‘01

20,066

1.4%

‘01-‘02

24,656

1.7%

‘02-‘03

25,732

1.7%

‘03-‘04

26,756

1.8%

‘04-‘05

26,358

1.7%

‘05-‘06

26,440

1.7%

‘06-‘07

23,612

1.4%

‘07-‘08

35,839

2.2%

‘08-‘09

54,062

3.3%

Year


‘08-‘09

49.7%



(2008-2009)

Rural

Black

18.7%

40.8%

White

Hispanic

34.9%

15.7%

(2008-2009)

City

53.7%

High

Suburb

25.6%

54.3%

Other 4.6%

Asian


Town

4.0%

1.0%

2.4%

Middle 17.9%

Middle/High 0.5%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

N/A

79.0%

‘06-‘07

90.0%

82.0%

‘07-‘08

77.8%

80.0%

Charter

All Public

Charter

All Public

‘06-‘07

20.5

20.3

1410

1458

Policy Environment 1998


No


Yes

Active Authorizers

42

18

1.0%

‘00-‘01

30

1.5%

‘01-‘02

40

2.0%

‘02-‘03

48

2.1%

‘03-‘04

49

2.4%

‘04-‘05

49

2.4%

‘05-‘06

58

2.6%

‘06-‘07

54

2.5%

‘07-‘08

71

3.2%

‘08-‘09

116

5.2%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


3

48

63.4%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Fulton County Schools

6,010

85,904

7.0%

Griffin-Spalding County School System

680

10,874

6.3%

Cobb County School District

5,465

106,425

5.1%

Whitfield County Schools

669

13,412

5.0%

DeKalb County Schools

4,914

98,814

5.0%

and Traditional)

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

3.1

69.8%

14.7%

12.1%

3.4%

Mean SAT Score

Year

Year Public Charter School Law Passed

‘99-‘00


Mean ACT Score



Elementary

26.0%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

35 Local School Districts; State Education Agency

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

91.4%

1.7%

6.9%

Hawaii Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

790

0.4%

‘00-‘01

1,343

0.7%

‘01-‘02

3,071

1.7%

‘02-‘03

3,354

1.8%

‘03-‘04

4,502

2.5%

‘04-‘05

5,177

2.8%

‘05-‘06

6,498

3.5%

‘06-‘07

6,350

3.5%

‘07-‘08

6,657

3.7%

‘08-‘09

7,373

4.1%

Year


‘08-‘09

32.9%



Asian

Rural

40.8%

White

34.9%

Hispanic 4.6%

44.4%

32.8%

Elementary

Town

‘99-‘00

2

0.8%

‘00-‘01

6

2.3%

‘01-‘02

22

7.9%

‘02-‘03

25

8.8%

‘03-‘04

26

9.2%

‘04-‘05

27

9.5%

‘05-‘06

27

9.5%

‘06-‘07

28

9.8%

‘07-‘08

28

9.8%

‘08-‘09

31

10.7%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

3

10.7%

‘08-‘09


Students

Hawaii Department of Education

6,657


Charter %

178,369

3.7%

and Traditional)

44.3%

Suburb

4.0%




17.4%

Black Other 4.6%

(2008-2009)

City

37.6%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

12.2%

Middle/High 6.3%

Middle


4.8%

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

7.4

12.9%

6.5%

74.2%

6.5%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

44.0%

35.0%

‘06-‘07

65.4%

65.0%

‘07-‘08

29.6%

42.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%


1994


Yes*



* 25 conversion charters; 23 start-up charters

43

Idaho Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

915

0.4%

‘00-‘01

1,083

0.4%

‘01-‘02

1,478

0.6%

‘02-‘03

3,058

1.2%

‘03-‘04

4,811

1.9%

‘04-‘05

5,975

2.3%

‘05-‘06

8,003

3.1%

‘06-‘07

9,543

3.6%

‘07-‘08

10,768

4.0%

‘08-‘09

11,959

4.3%

Year



‘08-‘09

7,347

12.0%



(2008-2009)


(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

Rural

91.8%

40.3%

1.0% 1.4%

4.8%

0.9%

Town 10%

Suburb 11%

Middle 1.3%

4.5%

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

79.2%

66.0%

‘06-‘07

46.2%

27.0%

‘07-‘08

82.1%

56.0%


1998


Yes*

* 6 charters per year with a limit of one per district

44

‘00-‘01

9

1.3%

‘01-‘02

10

1.5%

‘02-‘03

16

2.4%

‘03-‘04

17

2.5%

‘04-‘05

20

2.9%

‘05-‘06

26

3.7%

‘06-‘07

30

4.3%

‘07-‘08

30

4.1%

‘08-‘09

31

4.2%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


1

2

3.3%

‘08-‘09

Districts with Highest % of Students (2007-2008) Public School Students (Charter

Charter %

1,277

15,949

8.0%

Idaho Falls School District 91

665

11,060

6.0%

Pocatello/ Chubbuck School District 25

568

12,271

4.6%

Coeur d'Alene School District

449

10,805

4.2%

Boise School District

1,007

25,997

3.9%

and Traditional)


Active Authorizers

1.2%

Middle/High



8


High

58.6%

Hispanic Black

‘99-‘00

Nampa School District

24.9%

10.7%

Other Asian


Students

City

38.7%

Schools


Elementary White

Year

No 13 Local School Districts; Independent Charter Board

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

5.0

29.0%

48.4%

9.7%

12.9%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

93.5%

0.0%

6.5%

Illinois Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

6,152

0.3%

‘00-‘01

7,552

0.4%

‘01-‘02

8,661

0.4%

‘02-‘03

7,466

0.4%

‘03-‘04

11,750

0.6%

‘04-‘05

13,669

0.7%

‘05-‘06

16,968

0.8%

‘06-‘07

20,948

1.0%

‘07-‘08

24,753

1.4%

‘08-‘09

30,795

1.5%

Year



‘08-‘09

13,532

69.4%




(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)


City

Black

87.4%

62.5%

High

27.7%

25.0%

Hispanic 28.2%

White Other 5.9%

2.1%

Elementary 27.7%

Asian

Rural

1.4%

8.5%

Suburb 4.1%

Middle/High 14.3%

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

17

0.4%

‘00-‘01

19

0.4%

‘01-‘02

23

0.5%

‘02-‘03

22

0.5%

‘03-‘04

23

0.5%

‘04-‘05

26

0.6%

‘05-‘06

58

1.4%

‘06-‘07

73

1.7%

‘07-‘08

89

2.1%

‘08-‘09

95

2.2%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

13

14.6%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Chicago Public Schools

22,761

407,510

5.6%

Carpentersville District 300

512

19,594

2.6%


378

15,363

2.5%

and Traditional)

Middle 3.2%



Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

76.9%

79.0%

‘06-‘07

66.7%

74.0%

‘07-‘08

47.2%

67.0%

Year

Mean ACT Score


‘06-‘07

16.3

20.3

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

5.3

45.0%

20.0%

10.0%

25.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

54.4%

40.8%

4.9%


1996


Yes*


No 3 Local School Districts; State Education Agency

* 60 charters statewide: 30 allowed in Chicago, 15 in Chicago suburbs, and 15 downstate

45

Indiana Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

1,271

0.1%

‘03-‘04

2,908

0.3%

‘04-‘05

4,266

0.4%

‘05-‘06

7,409

0.7%

‘06-‘07

9,028

0.9%

‘07-‘08

11,121

1.1%

‘08-‘09

15,611

1.5%

Year



‘08-‘09

1,000 in Indianapolis

65.3%



(2008-2009)


(2006-2007)

Black

(2008-2009)

Elementary

City

60.0%

57.1%

86.1%


White

28.8%

21.4%

Other 4.8%

Asian Hispanic Rural Town Suburb 0.5%

5.9%

6.5% 2.0%

5.4%

High Middle/High Middle

10.3%

10.3%

4.4%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

44.4%

52.0%

‘06-‘07

44.1%

54.0%

‘07-‘08

42.1%

50.0%

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

11

0.6%

‘03-‘04

15

0.8%

‘04-‘05

22

1.2%

‘05-‘06

29

1.5%

‘06-‘07

37

1.9%

‘07-‘08

40

1.8%

‘08-‘09

49

2.2%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

9

22.5%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Gary Community School Corporation

3,047

17,125

17.8%

Indianapolis Public Schools

4,974

40,231

12.4%

New AlbanyFloyd County Consolidated School Corporation

443

12,396

3.6%

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation

519

22,784

2.3%

Fort Wayne Community Schools

663

32,224

2.1%

and Traditional)

Mean ACT Score

Mean SAT Score

Year

Charter

All Public

Charter

All Public

‘06-‘07

25.9

21.8

1776

1444


2001


Yes*


No Municipal Government Office; 1 Higher Education Institution

* The mayor of Indianapolis may approve no more than 5 charters annually

46



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.0

46.9%

30.6%

22.4%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

69.4%

20.4%

10.2%

Iowa Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

0

0.0%

‘04-‘05

145

0.0%

‘05-‘06

520

0.1%

‘06-‘07

699

0.1%

‘07-‘08

943

0.2%

‘08-‘09

922

0.2%

Year


‘08-‘09

52.1%


White

62.3%


Black

Rural

25.8%

16.2%

(2008-2009)

77.5%

0.3%

0.7%

11.0%

‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

0

0.0%

‘04-‘05

2

0.1%

‘05-‘06

6

0.4%

‘06-‘07

6

0.4%

‘07-‘08

6

0.4%

‘08-‘09

6

0.4%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

0

0.0%

‘08-‘09

Students

Elementary


High

Dubuque Community Schools Davenport Community Schools

39.0%

Other Asian Hispanic



61.0%

City

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Town


Charter %

249

10,675

2.3%

255

16,275

1.6%

and Traditional)

6.3%



Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

N/A

N/A

‘06-‘07

N/A

N/A

‘07-‘08

N/A

N/A


2002


Yes*


Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

3.2

50.0%

50.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%


* 20 conversion charters with only one per district allowed

47

Kansas Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

67

0.0%

‘01-‘02

1,465

0.3%

‘02-‘03

1,944

0.4%

‘03-‘04

1,395

0.3%

‘04-‘05

1,482

0.3%

‘05-‘06

1,914

0.4%

‘06-‘07

2,287

0.5%

‘07-‘08

3,121

0.6%

‘08-‘09

4,305

0.9%

Year


‘08-‘09

24.0%



White

(2008-2009)

34.3%

63.6%

Rural

34.3%

High

23.8%

Hispanic 13.5%

Other Asian 4.4%

3.2%

Black 4.2%

Surburb Town 3.2%

4.2%

12.1%

0.6%

Year

Charters Making AYP


88.9%

84.0%

‘06-‘07

81.8%

89.0%

‘07-‘08

76.5%

90.0%


1994


No

48

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

1

0.1%

‘01-‘02

10

0.7%

‘02-‘03

18

1.3%

‘03-‘04

14

1.0%

‘04-‘05

20

1.4%

‘05-‘06

25

1.8%

‘06-‘07

27

1.9%

‘07-‘08

30

2.1%

‘08-‘09

34

2.4%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


2

6

13.3%

‘08-‘09

Distirct/ Community Name

Students


Charter %

Lawrence Public Schools

722

10,833

6.7%

Topeka Public Schools

211

13,469

1.6%

and Traditional)


‘05-‘06

Active Authorizers

‘99-‘00

Middle/High Middle





Elementary

City

74.7%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year


Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

3.7

47.1%

41.2%

11.8%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Louisiana Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

2,449

0.3%

‘00-‘01

3,212

0.4%

‘01-‘02

3,923

0.5%

‘02-‘03

4,730

0.6%

‘03-‘04

4,585

0.6%

‘04-‘05

5,155

0.7%

‘05-‘06

8,315

1.3%

‘06-‘07

17,532

2.6%

‘07-‘08

21,695

3.2%

‘08-‘09

25,999

3.8%

Year


‘08-‘09

78.9%



(2008-2009)

City

Black

53.9%

Rural

11.1%

White

High

14.7%

Other 0.3%

18.1%

Asian Hispanic Town Suburb 2.4%

2.9%

3.6%

0.3%


Middle/High Middle

16.5%

3.7%


‘99-‘00

16

1.0%

‘00-‘01

19

1.2%

‘01-‘02

20

1.3%

‘02-‘03

20

1.3%

‘03-‘04

16

1.1%

‘04-‘05

17

1.1%

‘05-‘06

26

1.9%

‘06-‘07

42

3.0%

‘07-‘08

52

3.5%

‘08-‘09

64

4.3%

7.7%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

87.5%

93.0%

‘06-‘07

100.0%

94.0%

‘07-‘08

73.1%

93.0%

Year

Mean ACT Score


‘06-‘07

19.6

20.1

Opened Fall ‘08


0

12

23.1%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

New Orleans Public School System

17,925

32,887

54.5%

St. Mary Parish Schools

371

10,026

3.7%

Ouachita Parish School System

321

19,361

1.7%

East Baton Rouge Parish School System

506

44,601

1.1%

Lafourche Parish Public Schools

101

14,761

0.7%

and Traditional)

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

3.9

64.1%

17.2%

9.4%

9.4%


1995


Yes*

Active Authorizers

Spring ‘08

# of New Schools,





Elementary

85.1%

79.8%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

85.9%

9.4%

4.7%


* 70 charter schools statewide. Charters authorized in the statewide recovery school district by the state board of education, however, are exempt from this cap

49

Maryland Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

196

0.0%

‘04-‘05

228

0.0%

‘05-‘06

3,363

0.4%

‘06-‘07

5,071

0.6%

‘07-‘08

7,149

0.8%

‘08-‘09

8,836

1.0%

Year



‘08-‘09

2,350

55.5%




(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

1

0.1%

‘04-‘05

1

0.1%

‘05-‘06

15

1.1%

‘06-‘07

23

1.6%

‘07-‘08

30

2.1%

‘08-‘09

34

2.3%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

4

13.3%

‘08-‘09


Students

Baltimore City Public Schools

White

Other Asian

Black

Elementary

City

78.3%

70.6%

83.4%

15.8%

0.9%

0.6%

Hispanic 4.5%

Rural 3.3%

Suburb 13.4%

High

Middle/High

3.9%

13.9%

Middle 11.6%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

61.5%

N/A

‘06-‘07

57.1%

N/A

‘07-‘08

70.0%

N/A


2003


No


No

50

Charter %

5,591

81,284

6.9%

Frederick County Public Schools

283

40,487

0.7%

Prince George's County Public Schools

873

129,752

0.7%

Anne Arundel County Public Schools

296

73,400

0.4%

Harford County Public Schools

26

39,172

0.1%

and Traditional)


Active Authorizers


7 Local School Districts

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

3.0

58.8%

41.2%

0.0%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

88.2%

2.9%

8.8%

Massachusetts Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

12,518

1.3%

‘00-‘01

13,712

1.4%

‘01-‘02

14,446

1.5%

‘02-‘03

15,912

1.6%

‘03-‘04

17,971

1.8%

‘04-‘05

20,349

2.1%

‘05-‘06

21,958

2.3%

‘06-‘07

23,500

2.4%

‘07-‘08

25,036

2.6%

‘08-‘09

26,384

2.8%

Year



‘08-‘09

15,624

45.8%




(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

Black

White

43.5%

Elementary

26.3%

Suburb 40.9%

Hispanic

City

High

53.4%

34.4%

5.8%

22.9%

Middle/ High 22.0%

Other 3.0%

Asian 4.3%

Town 0.9%

Rural 4.8%


Middle 11.1%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

N/A

78.0%

‘06-‘07

69.4%

81.0%

‘07-‘08

75.9%

63.0%

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

40

2.1%

‘00-‘01

41

2.2%

‘01-‘02

43

2.3%

‘02-‘03

47

2.5%

‘03-‘04

51

2.7%

‘04-‘05

57

3.0%

‘05-‘06

59

3.1%

‘06-‘07

59

3.1%

‘07-‘08

61

3.3%

‘08-‘09

61

3.3%

Year

Opened Fall ‘08


1

1

0.0%


Students


Charter %

Boston Public Schools

4,763

61,374

7.8%

Worcester Public Schools

1,940

25,454

7.6%


2,049

27,524

7.4%

Lawrence Public Schools

913

13,095

7.0%

Lowell Public Schools

991

14,882

6.7%

and Traditional)


Year

Mean SAT Score

Public Schools (Charter & Traditional) Mean SAT Score

‘06-‘07

1423

1468


1993


Yes*

Active Authorizers

Spring ‘08

# of New Schools,

‘08-‘09

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

8.4

12.2%

24.5%

16.3%

46.9%



Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

95.1%

1.6%

3.3%


* 120 charters: 48 Horace Mann charters and 72 commonwealth charters

51

Michigan Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

46,078

2.8%

‘00-‘01

54,751

3.2%

‘01-‘02

64,598

3.8%

‘02-‘03

68,081

3.8%

‘03-‘04

72,096

4.1%

‘04-‘05

81,615

4.7%

‘05-‘06

91,384

5.3%

‘06-‘07

98,462

5.7%

‘07-‘08

99,926

6.0%

‘08-‘09

100,996

6.2%

Year


‘08-‘09

64.0%



(2008-2009)

City

White

47.3%

43.6%

63.7%


Rural

10.7%

Suburb

18.3%

33.9%

Other 2.7%

Asian Hispanic 1.4%

Town

5.0%

2.6%

High

10.6%

Middle/High Middle 4.2%


‘99-‘00

172

4.6%

‘00-‘01

180

4.8%

‘01-‘02

202

5.3%

‘02-‘03

191

4.9%

‘03-‘04

212

5.3%

‘04-‘05

247

6.2%

‘05-‘06

264

6.5%

‘06-‘07

268

6.9%

‘07-‘08

269

7.2%

‘08-‘09

232

6.2%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


8

7

-0.4%

‘08-‘09


Elementary

52.8%

Black

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

3.2%



Students


Charter %

Southfield Public School District

3,638

13,010

28.0%

Pontiac School District

2,649

10,811

24.5%

Detroit Public Schools

30,433

135,987

22.4%

Dearborn Public Schools

3,505

21,659

16.2%

Taylor School District

1,736

11,316

15.3%

and Traditional)

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

75.0%

85.0%

‘06-‘07

87.2%

83.0%


‘07-‘08

76.4%

80.0%

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

7.8

8.1%

28.0%

10.7%

53.1%

Year

Mean ACT Score


‘06-‘07

15.7

18.8


1993


Yes*


No 16 Local School Districts; 11 Higher Education Institutions

* 150 allowed to be authorized by state universities with no more than 50% per university

52

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

43.7%

3.3%

53.0%

Minnesota Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

7,794

0.9%

‘00-‘01

9,395

1.1%

‘01-‘02

10,206

1.2%

‘02-‘03

12,144

1.4%

‘03-‘04

14,256

1.7%

‘04-‘05

17,530

2.1%

‘05-‘06

20,603

2.5%

‘06-‘07

23,701

2.8%

‘07-‘08

28,034

3.3%

‘08-‘09

32,776

3.9%

Year


‘08-‘09

53.5%



White

48.6%

Asian

13.2%

(2008-2009)

City

50.1%

Black

28.2%

Middle/ High High

Suburb

19.7% 15.3%

16.4%

Other 2.4%

Hispanic 7.6%

Rural Town

10.3% 10.2%



‘99-‘00

62

2.6%

‘00-‘01

73

3.1%

‘01-‘02

73

3.4%

‘02-‘03

94

4.0%

‘03-‘04

101

4.6%

‘04-‘05

123

5.6%

‘05-‘06

149

6.7%

‘06-‘07

155

6.2%

‘07-‘08

168

7.4%

‘08-‘09

180

8.1%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


1

14

7.7%

‘08-‘09


Elementary

63.1%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Middle 5.0%


Students


Charter %

Minneapolis Public Schools

7,755

42,069

18.4%

Saint Paul Public Schools

6,137

45,187

13.6%

Duluth Public Schools

1,399

11,547

12.1%

and Traditional)




Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.0

22.9%

34.1%

19.6%

23.5%

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

58.2%

74.0%

‘06-‘07

48.6%

62.0%

‘07-‘08

43.4%

51.2%


1991


No


Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

97.2%

0.6%

2.2%

Yes 23 Local School Districts;12 Higher Education Institutions; 14 Not-For-Profit Organizations

53

Mississippi Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

347

0.1%

‘00-‘01

367

0.1%

‘01-‘02

351

0.1%

‘02-‘03

335

0.1%

‘03-‘04

338

0.1%

‘04-‘05

344

0.1%

‘05-‘06

374

0.1%

‘06-‘07

363

0.1%

‘07-‘08

375

0.1%

‘08-‘09

371

0.1%

Year


‘08-‘09

25.3%



Schools


‘99-‘00

1

0.1%

‘00-‘01

1

0.1%

‘01-‘02

1

0.1%

‘02-‘03

1

0.1%

‘03-‘04

1

0.1%

‘04-‘05

1

0.1%

‘05-‘06

1

0.1%

‘06-‘07

1

0.1%

‘07-‘08

1

0.1%

‘08-‘09

1

0.1%

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

‘08-‘09


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08

Growth in # of New Schools

0

0

0.0%

(2008-2009)

School Characteristics Black

41.8%

Hispanic 1.6%

White

Rural

54.2%

Elementary

100%

Asian


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

10.0

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

100.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

2.4%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

100.0%

N/A

‘06-‘07

100.0%

N/A

‘07-‘08

100.0%

N/A


1997


Yes*

State Provides Funding for Charter School Facilities Active Authorizers * 6 charters statewide

54

Year

100%


Missouri Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

4,303

0.5%

‘00-‘01

7,061

0.8%

‘01-‘02

7,694

0.8%

‘02-‘03

9,743

1.1%

‘03-‘04

10,304

1.1%

‘04-‘05

10,400

1.2%

‘05-‘06

10,972

1.2%

‘06-‘07

10,951

1.2%

‘07-‘08

14,813

1.6%

‘08-‘09

17,136

1.9%

Year


‘08-‘09

75.9%



(2008-2009)

69.5%

City

100%

High

14.0%

White Other Asian Hispanic 7.3%

0.3%

1.1%

Middle/High

7.1%

11.2%


‘99-‘00

15

0.7%

‘00-‘01

21

0.9%

‘01-‘02

21

0.9%

‘02-‘03

25

1.1%

‘03-‘04

26

1.1%

‘04-‘05

23

1.0%

‘05-‘06

23

1.0%

‘06-‘07

23

1.0%

‘07-‘08

39

1.8%

‘08-‘09

41

1.8%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


1

3

5.1%

‘08-‘09


Elementary

Black

84.2%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year


Students


Charter %

Kansas City, Missouri School District

7,134

31,583

22.6%

Saint Louis Public Schools

7,726

39,861

19.4%

and Traditional)

Middle 5.3%



Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

N/A

N/A

‘06-‘07

21.7%

N/A

‘07-‘08

15.4%

42.0%

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

5.3

56.1%

0.0%

12.2%

31.7%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

56.1%

2.4%

41.5%

Year

Mean ACT Score


‘06-‘07

*

21.6

* Charter schools do not have data


1998


Yes*


No 1 Local School District; State Education Agency; 9 Higher Education Institutions

* Charters only allowed in Kansas City and St. Louis school districts

55

Nevada Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

898

0.3%

‘00-‘01

1,255

0.4%

‘01-‘02

1,945

0.5%

‘02-‘03

2,788

0.8%

‘03-‘04

3,917

1.0%

‘04-‘05

4,178

1.0%

‘05-‘06

4,818

1.2%

‘06-‘07

5,879

1.4%

‘07-‘08

7,051

1.6%

‘08-‘09

9,813

2.2%

Year


‘08-‘09

9.2%



Black

23.5%

Hispanic

White

52.3%

2.0%

High

25.9%

27.0%

Rural

12.7%

Asian

Town

3.9%

Suburb

1.0%

3.9%

Middle/High 11.4%


‘99-‘00

5

1.0%

‘00-‘01

8

1.6%

‘01-‘02

10

1.9%

‘02-‘03

13

2.5%

‘03-‘04

15

2.7%

‘04-‘05

19

3.4%

‘05-‘06

18

3.3%

‘06-‘07

22

3.8%

‘07-‘08

25

4.0%

‘08-‘09

30

4.7%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

3

12.0%

‘08-‘09



City

18.3%

Other

(2008-2009)

77.8%

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Elementary 31.9%


Students


Charter %

Washoe County School District

2,042

65,677

3.1%

Clark County School District

4,105

312,888

1.3%

and Traditional)

Middle 3.7%



Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

66.7%

47.0%

‘06-‘07

66.7%

69.0%

‘07-‘08

72.7%

62.0%

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.5

50.0%

20.0%

20.0%

10.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

90.0%

0.0%

10.0%


1997


No


56


New Hampshire Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

0

0.0%

‘04-‘05

81

0.0%

‘05-‘06

200

0.1%

‘06-‘07

324

0.2%

‘07-‘08

498

0.2%

‘08-‘09

585

0.3%

Year



‘08-‘09

114

3.8%



Schools


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

0

0.0%

‘04-‘05

3

0.6%

‘05-‘06

6

1.3%

‘06-‘07

9

1.9%

‘07-‘08

11

2.3%

‘08-‘09

12

2.5%

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

‘08-‘09


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08

Growth in # of New Schools

1

2

9.1%

(2008-2009)

School Characteristics White

96.0%

Rural

35.5%

Other X%

Elementary Suburb 39.8%

High

53.7%

Town

24.7%

Other 1.4%

Asian Hispanic Black 0.8%

1.0%

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

2.6

75.0%

25.0%

0.0%

0.0%

36.4%

Middle

0.8%

9.9%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

100.0%

49.0%

‘06-‘07

66.7%

37.0%

‘07-‘08

100.0%

43.0%


1995


Yes*



*Under pilot program the state may grant 20 charters by 2013 (however there is a moratorium on new charters until June 30, 2009); Local school board and state board allowed to approve 10 charters

57

New Jersey Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

9,000

0.7%

‘00-‘01

10,179

0.8%

‘01-‘02

11,706

0.9%

‘02-‘03

12,526

0.9%

‘03-‘04

12,806

0.9%

‘04-‘05

13,537

1.0%

‘05-‘06

14,937

1.1%

‘06-‘07

15,800

1.1%

‘07-‘08

17,359

1.3%

‘08-‘09

19,726

1.4%

Year



‘08-‘09

11,105

60.7%



(2008-2009)

(2008-2009)

Black

Elementary

64.4%

City

48.3%

Hispanic 22.7%

64.1%

Suburb 50.4%

Middle 10.3%

White 9.4%

Asian

22.7%

Other

22.7%

Rural 1.3%

Elementary, High Middle/High Middle, High 11.0% 7.1% 7.6%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

47.8%

N/A

‘06-‘07

50.0%

N/A

‘07-‘08

66.7%

71.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

1137

1489


1996


No

Active Authorizers

58

‘99-‘00

47

‘00-‘01

53

2.20%

‘01-‘02

51

2.10%

‘02-‘03

50

2.04%

‘03-‘04

51

2.07%

‘04-‘05

49

2.01%

‘05-‘06

51

2.07%

‘06-‘07

53

2.15%

‘07-‘08

60

2.43%

‘08-‘09

66

2.7%



Spring ‘08

# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

6

10.0%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Camden City Public Schools

2,545

15,650

16.3%

Trenton Public Schools

1,514

12,960

11.7%

Jersey City Public Schools

2,987

31,106

9.6%

The Newark Public Schools

4,049

44,556

9.1%

The East Orange School District

495

10,386

4.8%

and Traditional)



Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year


Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.8

21.9%

9.4%

68.8%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

90.8%

9.2%

0.0%

New Mexico Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

22

0.0%

‘00-‘01

1,335

0.4%

‘01-‘02

2,697

0.8%

‘02-‘03

4,404

1.4%

‘03-‘04

6,225

1.9%

‘04-‘05

8,131

2.5%

‘05-‘06

8,595

2.6%

‘06-‘07

9,744

3.0%

‘07-‘08

9,931

3.0%

‘08-‘09

11,634

3.6%

Year



‘08-‘09

3,000

45.3%




(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

1

0.1%

‘00-‘01

10

1.3%

‘01-‘02

20

2.5%

‘02-‘03

27

3.3%

‘03-‘04

34

4.2%

‘04-‘05

44

5.3%

‘05-‘06

53

6.2%

‘06-‘07

60

7.3%

‘07-‘08

63

7.6%

‘08-‘09

67

8.2%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


1

4

4.8%

‘08-‘09

Top 5 School Districts (2007-2008) High

White

Rural

37.0%

36.4%

City

19.1%

51.2%

Hispanic 48.8%

Elementary

Suburb

29.3%

19.1%

Other 9.6%

Asian

Black

1.4%

3.2%

Town

Middle/ High

10.6%

21.6%

Middle Elementary/ Middle/High 7.3% 5.5%


Distict/ Community Name

Students


Charter %

Santa Fe Public Schools

1,212

13,558

8.9%

Albuquerque Public Schools

6,582

95,965

6.7%

Las Cruces Public Schools

238

24,385

1.0%

GallupMcKinley County Schools

50

12,280

0.4%

and Traditional)

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

51.2%

47.0%

‘06-‘07

61.2%

46.0%

‘07-‘08

46.4%

46.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

20.1

19.2

Year



Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘06-‘07

1563

1548

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

5.0

35.8%

29.9%

34.3%

0.0%


1993


Yes*


Yes 19 Local School Districts; State Education Agency

15 start-up charters and 5 conversion charters per year; A charter may not enroll more that 10% of the total number of students in the district

59

New York Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

964

0.0%

‘00-‘01

3,975

0.1%

‘01-‘02

9,000

0.3%

‘02-‘03

10,410

0.4%

‘03-‘04

14,572

0.5%

‘04-‘05

18,124

0.6%

‘05-‘06

21,539

0.8%

‘06-‘07

26,273

0.9%

‘07-‘08

32,418

1.2%

‘08-‘09

33,581

1.3%

Year



‘08-‘09

39,200 in New York City

68.0%



(2008-2009)


(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

City

Black

63.1%

Elementary

87.9%

Hispanic

65.6%

24.5%

Middle 12.7%

White 9.9%

Other 1.1%

Asian 1.5%

Rural 7.7%

Suburb 4.4%

Elementary/ Middle/High 8.7%

High Middle/ High 5.4% 7.6%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

33.3%

N/A

‘06-‘07

92.1%

N/A

‘07-‘08

89.3%

N/A


1998


Yes*

Active Authorizers


60

Schools


‘99-‘00

5

0.1%

‘00-‘01

23

0.5%

‘01-‘02

32

0.7%

‘02-‘03

37

0.8%

‘03-‘04

50

1.1%

‘04-‘05

58

1.3%

‘05-‘06

79

1.7%

‘06-‘07

92

2.0%

‘07-‘08

97

2.1%

‘08-‘09

124

2.7%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


2

26

24.7%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Buffalo Public Schools

7,141

40,853

17.5%

City School District of Albany

1,720

10,056

17.1%

Syracuse City School District

890

20,649

4.3%

Rochester City School District

985

33,702

2.9%

New York City Department of Education

18,189

985,650

1.8%

and Traditional)



Year

Yes 2 Local School Districts; State Education Agency; 1 Higher Education Insitution

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.2

37.9%

37.1%

25.0%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

69.7%

21.3%

9.0%

North Carolina Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

12,691

1.0%

‘00-‘01

15,523

1.2%

‘01-‘02

18,235

1.4%

‘02-‘03

20,420

1.5%

‘03-‘04

21,955

1.6%

‘04-‘05

25,248

1.8%

‘05-‘06

27,441

1.9%

‘06-‘07

28,453

2.0%

‘07-‘08

32,607

2.2%

‘08-‘09

36,007

2.5%

Year



‘08-‘09

5,000

16.5%



(2008-2009)

Elementary/ Middle/High

White

61.3%

Rural

36.2%

Black

33.3%

City

32.2%

Elementary

Suburb

31.6%

Town 15.6%

50.2%

16%

Other 1.1%

Asian 1.9%

Hispanic

High

4.2%

Middle/ High

4.0%

8.2%

Middle 4.3%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

48.9%

N/A

‘06-‘07

54.0%

N/A

‘07-‘08

42.3%

31.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

1427

1486


1996


Yes*

Active Authorizers


‘99-‘00

77

3.6%

‘00-‘01

90

4.1%

‘01-‘02

93

4.2%

‘02-‘03

93

4.1%

‘03-‘04

93

4.1%

‘04-‘05

97

4.2%

‘05-‘06

99

4.2%

‘06-‘07

93

3.8%

‘07-‘08

100

4.1%

‘08-‘09

97

3.9%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


3

2

-1.0%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Rutherford County Schools

855

10,893

7.8%

Durham Public Schools

2,510

34,297

7.3%

Lincoln County School District

801

12,996

6.2%

Brunswick County Schools

744

12,648

5.9%

Wilson County Schools

731

13,281

5.5%

and Traditional)



Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

8.9

11.0%

9.0%

27.0%

53.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

92.0%

2.0%

6.0%


100 charters with 5 allowed per district

61

Ohio Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

9,809

0.5%

‘00-‘01

14,745

0.8%

‘01-‘02

22,569

1.2%

‘02-‘03

34,028

1.9%

‘03-‘04

46,130

2.5%

‘04-‘05

59,353

3.2%

‘05-‘06

68,679

3.7%

‘06-‘07

75,692

4.1%

‘07-‘08

79,959

4.6%

‘08-‘09

88,667

4.7%

Year


‘08-‘09

62.5%


Schools


‘99-‘00

48

1.3%

‘00-‘01

66

1.7%

‘01-‘02

85

2.2%

‘02-‘03

134

3.4%

‘03-‘04

163

4.2%

‘04-‘05

255

6.5%

‘05-‘06

290

7.5%

‘06-‘07

297

7.7%

‘07-‘08

321

8.0%

‘08-‘09

332

8.3%

Year


(2008-2009)

Year


(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


14

20

1.9%

‘08-‘09

Top 5 School Districts (2007-2008) Black

White

47.4%

5.7%

37.0%

73.7%

Suburb

40.8%

Other


City

Elementary

13.5%

Asian 2.4%

Hispanic 3.8%

Rural 7.8%

Town 4.9%

42.5%

High

11.9%

Middle/ High 5.8%

Middle 2.7%


Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

90.8%

N/A

‘06-‘07

39.8%

N/A

‘07-‘08

38.2%

86.0%

Year

Public Charter Schools Meeting or Exceeding Value-Added Target

Non-Charter Schools Meeting or Exceeding Value-Added Target

‘06-‘07

77.2%

75.0%

‘06-‘07

57.6%

56.0%


1997


Yes

Active Authorizers

No 58 Local School Districts; 3 Higher Education Institutions; 7 Not-For-Profit Organizations

60 charters with 30 authorized by the district and 30 by a non-district entity

62

Students


Charter %

Dayton Public Schools

6,252

22,493

27.8%

Youngstown City Schools

2,663

10,945

24.3%

Cleveland City Schools

12,674

62,849

20.2%

Toledo Public Schools

6,428

34,557

18.6%

Cincinnati Public Schools

6,794

41,612

16.3%

and Traditional)


Policy Environment



Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

5.4

24.2%

42.6%

23.9%

9.2%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

57.1%

20.4%

22.5%

Oklahoma Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

1,208

0.2%

‘01-‘02

2,133

0.3%

‘02-‘03

2,712

0.4%

‘03-‘04

3,491

0.6%

‘04-‘05

3,709

0.6%

‘05-‘06

4,081

0.6%

‘06-‘07

4,649

0.7%

‘07-‘08

5,362

0.9%

‘08-‘09

5,418

0.9%

Year


‘08-‘09

68.7%

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

6

0.3%

‘01-‘02

10

0.6%

‘02-‘03

10

0.6%

‘03-‘04

12

0.7%

‘04-‘05

12

0.7%

‘05-‘06

14

0.8%

‘06-‘07

16

0.9%

‘07-‘08

15

0.8%

‘08-‘09

16

0.9%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

1

6.7%

‘08-‘09 Student Ethnic Demographic (2008-2009)


Black


(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

City

35.6%

High

90.0%

33.6%

Hispanic White

28.4%

Middle 24.3%

28.3%

Other 4.8%

Elementary 18%

Asian 2.9%

Middle/ High

Rural

10.0%

16.3%

Elementary Middle, High 7.8%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

36.4%

N/A

‘06-‘07

41.7%

N/A

‘07-‘08

N/A

N/A

Year



‘06-‘07

21.2

20.6


Students


Charter %

Oklahoma City Public Schools

4,479

40,985

10.9%

Tulsa Public Schools

883

41,271

2.1%

and Traditional)



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.6

18.8%

25.0%

56.3%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

93.8%

6.3%

0.0%


1999


Yes


Yes

Active Authorizers

2 Local School Districts; 1 Higher Education Institution

6 charters per year; Charters allowed only in Oklahoma and Tulsa County

63

Oregon Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

109

0.0%

‘00-‘01

559

0.1%

‘01-‘02

999

0.2%

‘02-‘03

1,959

0.4%

‘03-‘04

2,487

0.5%

‘04-‘05

4,104

0.8%

‘05-‘06

5,192

1.0%

‘06-‘07

9,390

1.7%

‘07-‘08

11,826

2.1%

‘08-‘09

13,617

2.4%

Year


‘08-‘09

17.7%



White

(2008-2009)


City

77.1%

Rural

37.3%

Town

22%

40.0%

Suburb 24.2%

Elementary 38.8%

16.5%

Other

10.8%

Asian 2.5%

Hispanic 6.5%

Black

High

3.1%

10.7%

Middle/ High 4.9%

Schools


‘99-‘00

1

0.1%

‘00-‘01

12

0.9%

‘01-‘02

16

1.3%

‘02-‘03

21

1.7%

‘03-‘04

24

2.0%

‘04-‘05

57

4.4%

‘05-‘06

52

4.2%

‘06-‘07

68

5.3%

‘07-‘08

82

6.3%

‘08-‘09

87

6.6%

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Middle 5.5%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

63.6%

70.0%

‘06-‘07

64.8%

74.0%

‘07-‘08

63.5%

N/A

Opened Fall ‘08


8

13

6.1%


Students


Charter %

North Clackamas Schools

1,361

17,579

7.7%

Reynolds School District

345

11,105

3.1%

Eugene School District

550

18,025

3.1%

Portland Public Schools

1,004

46,297

2.2%

David Douglas School District

225

10,401

2.2%

and Traditional)



1999


No


No

64

Spring ‘08

# of New Schools,

‘08-‘09

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.1

43.7%

35.6%

20.7%

0.0%

Active Authorizers


52 Local School Districts; State Education Agency

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

92.0%

6.9%

1.1%

Pennsylvania Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

11,413

0.6%

‘00-‘01

18,981

1.0%

‘01-‘02

28,453

1.6%

‘02-‘03

32,862

1.8%

‘03-‘04

41,114

2.3%

‘04-‘05

48,212

2.6%

‘05-‘06

55,630

3.0%

‘06-‘07

59,976

3.2%

‘07-‘08

67,275

3.7%

‘08-‘09

70,567

3.9%

Year



‘08-‘09

33,577

57.8%



(2008-2009)

White

43.6%

City

Black

55.6%

42.8%

(2008-2009)


Suburb 31.0%

High

11.1%

Other 2.1%

Asian 2.0%

Hispanic 9.5%

Rural 2.9%

Town

Middle/ High

10.5%

Elementary 29.5%

Middle

9.5%

3.3%


Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

N/A

N/A

‘06-‘07

N/A

N/A

‘07-‘08

60.0%

72.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

1247

1408

1997


No


Yes

Active Authorizers


‘99-‘00

47

1.5%

‘00-‘01

65

2.0%

‘01-‘02

77

2.4%

‘02-‘03

91

2.9%

‘03-‘04

102

3.2%

‘04-‘05

109

3.3%

‘05-‘06

116

3.6%

‘06-‘07

119

3.6%

‘07-‘08

125

3.9%

‘08-‘09

129

4.0%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


1

3

1.6%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

The School District of Philadelphia

32,557

205,261

15.9%

Pittsburgh Public Schools

2,668

30,348

8.8%

Erie City School District

939

13,443

7.0%

Bethlehem Area School District

1,056

16,362

6.5%

Pocono Mountain School District

419

11,925

3.5%

and Traditional)



Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

7.2

12.4%

23.3%

31.8%

32.6%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

84.8%

6.8%

8.3%

1 Local School District; State Education Agency

65

Rhode Island Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

446

0.3%

‘00-‘01

557

0.4%

‘01-‘02

843

0.5%

‘02-‘03

705

0.4%

‘03-‘04

1,024

0.7%

‘04-‘05

2,198

1.4%

‘05-‘06

2,571

1.7%

‘06-‘07

2,812

1.9%

‘07-‘08

2,995

2.0%

‘08-‘09

3,134

2.2%

Year



‘08-‘09

3,100

62.3%



Black

(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

Elementary

City

20.3%

Hispanic White


60.9%

45.6%

54.1%

Suburb 28.1%

High

29.2%

Other 1.5%

25.1%

Asian 3.3%

Rural


11.1%


‘99-‘00

2

0.6%

‘00-‘01

3

0.9%

‘01-‘02

6

1.8%

‘02-‘03

7

2.1%

‘03-‘04

8

2.4%

‘04-‘05

11

3.3%

‘05-‘06

11

3.3%

‘06-‘07

11

3.4%

‘07-‘08

11

3.5%

‘08-‘09

11

3.5%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

0

0.0%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Providence Public School District

1,558

25,183

6.2%

Cranston Public Schools Network

193

10,523

1.8%

and Traditional)


Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

100.0%

68.0%

‘06-‘07

100.0%

79.0%

‘07-‘08

60.0%

73.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

1236

1450


1995


Yes*



*20 charters with schools enrolling no more than 4% of state’s students

66

Schools

20.8%


Active Authorizers

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

7.6

0.0%

20.0%

70.0%

10.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

South Carolina Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

327

0.0%

‘00-‘01

484

‘01-‘02

459

Year

Schools


0.1%

‘99-‘00

4

0.4%

0.1%

‘00-‘01

8

0.7%

10

0.9%

‘02-‘03

1,132

0.2%

‘01-‘02

‘03-‘04

3,155

0.5%

‘02-‘03

13

1.1%

18

1.6%

‘04-‘05

3,726

0.5%

‘03-‘04

‘05-‘06

4,104

0.6%

‘04-‘05

24

2.2%

27

2.4%

‘06-‘07

5,112

0.7%

‘05-‘06

‘07-‘08

5,362

0.8%

‘06-‘07

29

2.5%

1.2%

‘07-‘08

29

2.6%

‘08-‘09

34

2.9%

‘08-‘09

8,465

Year



‘08-‘09

1,927

21.0%



40.2%

Asian 1.1%

42.4%

Hispanic 1.8%

Elementary Elementary 23.8% Middle 22.2%

Rural

18.1%

Town 7.7%

Suburb 9.2%

Middle/ High 5.2%

Middle 6.4%


Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

26.3%

41.0%

‘06-‘07

36.4%

20.0%

‘07-‘08

29.2%

20.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

19.2

18.7

Year



‘06-‘07

1416

1405

Spring ‘08

# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


2

7

17.2%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Charleston County School District

2,669

40,205

6.6%

Greenville County Schools

1,048

67,584

1.6%

Richland County School District One

318

23,213

1.4%

Lancaster County School District

108

11,274

1.0%

Aiken County Public School District

218

23,895

0.9%

and Traditional)



1996


No


No

Active Authorizers


Top 5 School Districts (2007-2008)

High

65.0%

Black

5.0%

(2008-2009)

City

White

Other


(2006-2007)

51.9%

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.5

35.3%

47.1%

14.7%

2.9%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%


67

Tennessee Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

324

0.0%

‘04-‘05

981

0.1%

‘05-‘06

1,685

0.2%

‘06-‘07

2,262

0.2%

‘07-‘08

2,747

0.3%

‘08-‘09

3,656

0.4%

Year


‘08-‘09

1.8%



(2008-2009)


(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

High

Middle/ High

Black

96.1%

City

14.3%

25.5%

100%

Middle 33.2%

White Asian Other Hispanic 1.5%

0.2%

0.2%

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

0

0.0%

‘03-‘04

4

0.2%

‘04-‘05

7

0.4%

‘05-‘06

12

0.7%

‘06-‘07

12

0.7%

‘07-‘08

12

0.7%

‘08-‘09

16

0.9%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

4

33.3%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Memphis City Schools

2,548

110,000

2.3%

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

247

70,000

0.4%

and Traditional)

Elementary

2.1%

27.0%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

71.4%

78.0%

‘06-‘07

90.0%

80.0%

‘07-‘08

100.0%

76.7%

Year



‘06-‘07

14.7

20.7



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

3.8

31.3%

68.8%

0.0%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

87.5%

12.5%

0.0%


1997


Yes*



*50 charters with 20 in Memphis and 4 in Shelby County; Types of students enrolled are specified in the law

68

Texas Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

25,687

0.6%

‘00-‘01

37,978

0.9%

‘01-‘02

47,050

1.1%

‘02-‘03

53,988

1.3%

‘03-‘04

60,833

1.4%

‘04-‘05

66,152

1.5%

‘05-‘06

70,895

1.6%

‘06-‘07

96,717

2.1%

‘07-‘08

84,752

1.9%

‘08-‘09

101,685

2.1%

Year



‘08-‘09

16,810

70.0%



Schools


‘99-‘00

176

2.4%

‘00-‘01

201

2.7%

‘01-‘02

243

3.1%

‘02-‘03

263

3.3%

‘03-‘04

274

3.4%

‘04-‘05

295

3.7%

‘05-‘06

319

3.7%

‘06-‘07

385

4.8%

‘07-‘08

371

4.5%

‘08-‘09

417

5.0%

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

(2008-2009)


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


2

52

13.5%

‘08-‘09


Black

Elementary Middle, High 25.4%

City

82.4%

Hispanic

High

51.6%

27.6%

15.7%

Elementary 38.1%

White

17.1%

Other

Asian

0.3%

3.4%

Rural 5.7%

Town 2.4%

Suburb

Middle/ High

9.4%

14.0%

Middle 6.8%


Students


Charter %

City of San Antonio

13,015

58,903

22.1%

City of Houston

25,244

213,604

11.8%

City of Dallas

15,043

172,199

8.7%

City of Donna

1,338

15,369

8.7%

City of Alief

2,853

48,036

5.9%

and Traditional)


Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

72.8%

82.0%

‘06-‘07

67.8%

80.0%

‘07-‘08

69.4%

75.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

18.2

19.6

Year



‘06-‘07

1414

1443



Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.1

33.5%

17.6%

21.1%

27.8%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

69.3%

27.6%

3.2%


1995


Yes*



*215 charters statewide

69

Utah Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

390

0.1%

‘00-‘01

537

0.1%

‘01-‘02

656

0.1%

‘02-‘03

1,558

0.3%

‘03-‘04

3,253

0.7%

‘04-‘05

6,214

1.3%

‘05-‘06

11,439

2.2%

‘06-‘07

19,098

3.6%

‘07-‘08

22,196

4.1%

‘08-‘09

27,369

5.0%

Year



‘08-‘09

5,000

16.0%




(2006-2007)

(2008-2009)

City

White


12.8%

82.8%

35.2%

Rural

28.3%

Town

10.7%

Other 4.5%

Asian 1.9%

Hispanic 9.3%

High

14.2%

Suburb

Black

Middle/High

1.5%

Elementary 45.2%

48.2%

3.8%

Middle 1.5%


Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

6

0.8%

‘00-‘01

8

1.0%

‘01-‘02

9

1.1%

‘02-‘03

12

1.5%

‘03-‘04

19

2.1%

‘04-‘05

27

2.9%

‘05-‘06

36

3.8%

‘06-‘07

52

5.3%

‘07-‘08

58

6.0%

‘08-‘09

66

7.1%

Year


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

8

13.8%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Nebo School District

2,586

29,174

8.9%

Alpine School District

5,020

63,685

7.9%

Provo City School District

911

13,994

6.5%

Cache County School District

973

15,167

6.4%

Ogden City School District

815

13,418

6.1%

and Traditional)

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

94.3%

84.0%


‘06-‘07

90.0%

75.0%

Year

‘07-‘08

94.7%

80.0%


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.0

46.3%

38.8%

14.9%

0.0%


1998


Yes*



*Total number of students enrolled may increase by only 1.4% annually

70

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Virginia Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

55

0.0%

‘01-‘02

813

0.1%

‘02-‘03

466

0.0%

‘03-‘04

478

0.0%

‘04-‘05

370

0.0%

‘05-‘06

210

0.0%

‘06-‘07

236

0.0%

‘07-‘08

240

0.0%

‘08-‘09

250

0.0%

Year


‘08-‘09

26.8%



(2008-2009)

Suburb 16.5%

White

60.0%

Middle Black

33.2%

High

City

Other 1.6%

Asian

38.8%

61.2%

83.5%

Hispanic

1.2%

4.0%



‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

1

0.1%

‘01-‘02

7

0.4%

‘02-‘03

7

0.4%

‘03-‘04

6

0.3%

‘04-‘05

5

0.3%

‘05-‘06

3

0.2%

‘06-‘07

3

0.2%

‘07-‘08

3

0.2%

‘08-‘09

4

0.2%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

1

33.3%

‘08-‘09


Students


Charter %

Albemarle County Public Schools

108

12,803

0.8%

York County School Division

51

12,844

0.4%

Hampton City Schools

81

22,331

0.4%

and Traditional)


Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

66.7%

78.0%

‘06-‘07

66.7%

75.0%

‘07-‘08

100.0%

74.0%


1998


No


No

Active Authorizers

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

6.0

25.0%

0.0%

75.0%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%


20 new charters per year

71

Wisconsin Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

3,561

0.4%

‘00-‘01

9,511

1.1%

‘01-‘02

15,241

1.7%

‘02-‘03

19,005

2.2%

‘03-‘04

21,165

2.4%

‘04-‘05

24,879

2.9%

‘05-‘06

27,450

3.1%

‘06-‘07

29,639

3.4%

‘07-‘08

36,596

4.2%

‘08-‘09

37,277

4.3%

Year


‘08-‘09

46.6%



Black

50.1%

(2008-2009)

5.6%

‘02-‘03

128

5.73%

‘03-‘04

137

6.17%

‘04-‘05

149

6.75%

‘05-‘06

180

8.03%

‘06-‘07

188

8.42%

‘07-‘08

229

9.52%

‘08-‘09

217

9.5%


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


15

8

-3.1%

‘08-‘09


14.7%

xx%

Appleton Area School District

2,143

15,233

14.1%

Elementary Middle/High Middle, High 3.1%

Sheboygan Area School District

995

10,445

9.5%

School District of Waukesha

1,076

13,503

8.0%

3.2%

Year

Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

92.5%

94.0%

‘06-‘07

91.4%

96.0%

‘07-‘08

90.4%

95.1%


1993


Yes*


No 90 Local School Districts; Municipal Government Office; 2 Higher Education Institutions

*UW-Parkside may sponsor only one school in Racine with a maximum of 480 students enrolled


Students

Milwaukee Public Schools

and Traditional)


Policy Environment

72

4.85%

10,330

10.1%


Active Authorizers

3.58%

107

1,518

High

Town

6.7%

78

‘01-‘02

Oshkosh Area School District

Middle

Rural Suburb

‘00-‘01

18.4%

56.7%

12.8% 5.0%

2.12%

92,106

74.9%

Asian

45

16,965

Elementary

14.3%

1.0%

‘99-‘00

Charter %

Hispanic

Other



City

29.6%

White

Schools

Year


(2006-2007)

Year

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

4.9

40.6%

28.7%

22.1%

8.6%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

98.6%

0.0%

1.4%

Wyoming Public Charter Schools Student Population

School Growth

Year

Students


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

102

0.1%

‘03-‘04

132

0.2%

‘04-‘05

204

0.2%

‘05-‘06

238

0.3%

‘06-‘07

242

0.3%

‘07-‘08

255

0.3%

‘08-‘09

255

0.3%

Year


‘08-‘09

38.6%




(2006-2007)

Year

Schools


‘99-‘00

0

0.0%

‘00-‘01

0

0.0%

‘01-‘02

0

0.0%

‘02-‘03

1

0.3%

‘03-‘04

1

0.3%

‘04-‘05

2

0.5%

‘05-‘06

3

0.8%

‘06-‘07

3

0.8%

‘07-‘08

3

0.8%

‘08-‘09

3

0.9%

Year

‘08-‘09


# of New Schools,

Opened Fall ‘08


0

0

0%

(2008-2009)

School Characteristics Elementary Other

39.6%

White

57.3%

Rural

54.1%

100%

High

42.7%

Asian 2.4%

Hispanic 2.7%

Black 1.2%


Charters Making AYP


‘05-‘06

100.0%

N/A

‘06-‘07

66.7%

94.0%

‘07-‘08

33.3%

75.0%

Year



‘06-‘07

*

21.6

Year


Open 1-3 Years

Open 4-6 Years

Open 7-9 Years

Open 10+ Years

‘08-‘09

5.3

0.0%

66.7%

33.3%

0.0%

Year

Freestanding

Managed by CMO

Managed by EMO

‘08-‘09

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%


1995


No


No

Active Authorizers


*: Charter schools do not have data

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Methodology & Sources

2009 Public Charter School Dashboard Methodology The 2009 Public Charter School Dashboard is divided into three sections: the National Dashboard, state-by-state comparisons on the indicators, and individual State Dashboards. Each of the three sections is organized by five main categories: • • • • •

Student Population School Growth School Characteristics Performance & Accountability Policy Environment

Below we describe the methodology for gathering the data for each of these categories. Student Population For this section, we gathered data from the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 academic years, primarily from state department of education websites and personnel. We gathered school-level enrollment and demographic information from publicly available fall enrollment databases and aggregated the school data up to the state and national levels. At the time of this publication, several states had not released official fall 2008 enrollment numbers for the 2008-2009 academic year (IL, MD, NJ, SC, and WY). For these states, we collected enrollment estimates from state department of education annual charter school reports, charter school associations, and charter school resource centers. For the academic years prior to 2007-2008, we used enrollment and demographic data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Common Core of Data (CCD). The race/ethnicity categories in this report are White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Other. As states often report different racial/ethnic categories, we combined groups in the following ways: White includes all White, non-Hispanic students; Black includes all Black, non-Hispanic students; Hispanic includes Hispanic and Latino students; Asian includes Asian and Filipino students; and Other includes American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, Multiracial, and non-classified students. The student residence indicator uses geographic locale data from CCD through the 2006-2007 academic year. The CCD calculation of a school’s location as city, suburb, town, or rural is the best source for this type of data. Given that the CCD algorithm is not easy to replicate, estimates for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 are not included in this report. Many public charter schools enroll students in non-traditional grade configurations. We report enrollment with the following grade level breakouts to capture the variety of public charter schools: Elementary, Middle, Middle/High, High, and Elementary/Middle/High. Schools were classified as Elementary Schools if the lowest grade offered was between Pre-Kindergarten and third and the highest grade offered was between Pre-Kindergarten and eighth. Middle Schools are defined as having low grades between fourth and eighth and high grades between fifth and eighth. Middle/High Schools have low grades between fourth and eighth and high grades between ninth and twelfth. High Schools offer low grades between ninth and twelfth and high grades between ninth and twelfth. Finally, Elementary/Middle/High Schools offer low grades between Pre-Kindergarten and third and high grades between ninth and twelfth. School Growth Pinning down the total number of public charters schools open and operating each academic year is challenging for a variety of reasons. For example, new schools may be authorized to open at the beginning of an academic year, but not open their doors to students until the spring semester. In other scenarios, public charter schools grow out of their existing buildings and open new campuses. The new campus may be considered part of the original charter in some states, while in other states the new campus may receive its own charter. And in other cases, public charter schools serve alternative students where enrollment reduces to zero in one academic year and then bounces back the next. Given these (and other) scenarios, reporting a total number of charter schools that is consistent with other sources is surprisingly difficult to achieve. For the national and state dashboards in this report, schools must enroll students in the fall to be counted as an open and operating public charter school for the academic year. Within each academic year, we started with lists of open charter schools from state departments of education, CCD, and charter school associations. However, the final rule for inclusion in the total number of schools was valid fall enrollment. Likewise, in the fall of 2008, we contacted state departments of education, charter school associations, and charter school resource centers to obtain lists of charter schools that had closed after the 2007-2008 academic year and charter schools that had opened in the fall of 2008. The lists were adjusted as needed depending on official fall enrollment data. The ranking of school districts based on the share of students enrolled in public charter schools is derived from data collection efforts for the National Alliance’s annual report, Top 10 Charter Communities by Market Share. Included in the market share analyses are communities with more than 10,000 public school students (total of both charter and non-charter students). Communities with virtual charter schools that enroll a large number of students from outside of the community were excluded.

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2009 Public Charter School Dashboard Methodology School Characteristics We gathered school-level data for the year charter schools opened and charter school status as start-ups or conversions from state departments of education, charter school associations, charter school resource centers, and charter school websites. When we could not obtain the year open from these sources, we estimated the year based on longitudinal enrollment for the school. To classify charter schools as freestanding, operated by nonprofit Charter Management Organizations (CMO), or operated by for-profit Education Management Organizations (EMO), we relied on the annual profiles of education management organizations reports jointly released by the Education and Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado and Boulder and the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at Arizona State University. Performance & Accountability In the National Alliance’s first dashboard in 2005, performance and accountability indicators, such as the percent of charter schools meeting state academic targets, charter school students making more than a year of learning gains, and the charter school high school graduation rate, were listed even though data were not available. The expectation was that in subsequent years, the indicators would be filled with reliable figures. Regrettably, there continue to be shortcomings in the types of data publically available across all states that are necessary to answer many of the important questions regarding public charter school performance and accountability at the national and state levels. As rough a gauge of school-level achievement as adequate yearly progress (AYP) is, it is one of the few widely available indicators of how public charter schools perform. The national and state dashboards report the percent of public charter schools that make AYP compared with the percent of all public schools that make AYP. We also collected school-level SAT and composite ACT scores for a number of states where the information was available. Only a handful of states measure school-level academic growth and make the data available. These measures are presented where available. The National Alliance will continue to request access to data on public charter school achievement growth, percent proficient on state standardized assessments, graduation and dropout rates, and college attendance to improve the indicators presented in future national and state dashboard reports. Additionally, we will collect and include state and national level data for non-charter schools to serve as better comparison data in future reports. Policy Environment The number of states with charter school laws continues to hold at 40 plus the District of Columbia. There are state-imposed caps on the number and growth of public charter schools in 26 states plus the District of Columbia. While 13 states plus the District of Columbia provide at least a minimum level of funding to public charter schools for facilities, public charter schools continue to operate with less funding than traditional public schools. The National Association of Charter School Authorizers provided the data on charter school authorizer types across the states. Local school districts remain as the largest category of authorizers. However, all but six states have active authorizers other than local school districts. Acknowledgements Anna Nicotera of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools led the data collection efforts and production of this report. Significant assistance in gathering data was provided by Todd Ziebarth and Tiffani Tatum of the National Alliance, Kristie J.R. Phillips of Brigham Young University, Susan Miller Barker of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and Alfred C. Dunn, II of Vanderbilt University. The Public Charter School Dashboard was made possible through grants from the Daniels Fund and The Annie E. Casey Foundation

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Data Sources National National Association of Charter School Authorizers (www.qualitycharters.org) National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (nces.ed.gov/ccd/) Miron, G., & Urschel, J. (2008). Profiles of Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: 2007-2008. Boulder and Tempe: Education and the Public Interest Center & Education Policy Research Unit. Retrieved December 2008 from: http://epicpolicy.org/publication/profiles-nonprofit-education-managementorganizations-2007-2008. Monlar, A., Miron, G., & Urschel, J. (2008). Profiles of For-Profit Educational Management Organizations: Tenth Annual Report. Boulder and Tempe: Education and the Public Interest Center & Education Policy Research Unit. Retrieved August 2008 from: http://epicpolicy.org/publication/profiles-profit-education-management-organizations-2007-2008. Alaska Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (www.eed.state.ak.us) Arizona Arizona Charter Schools Association (www.azcharters.org) Arizona Department of Education (www.ade.state.az.us) Arkansas Arkansas Department of Education (arkansased.org) University of Arkansas, National Office for Research on Measurement and Evaluation Systems (normessasweb.uark.edu/schoolperformance/index.html) California California Charter Schools Association (www.myschool.org) California Department of Education (www.cde.ca.gov) Colorado Colorado Department of Education (www.cde.state.co.us) Colorado League of Charter Schools (www.coloradoleague.org) Connecticut ConnCAN (www.conncan.org) Connecticut State Department of Education (www.sde.ct.gov) Delaware Delaware Charter Schools Network (www.decharternetwork.org) Delaware Department of Education (www.doe.k12.de.us)

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Data Sources Florida Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools (www.floridacharters.org) Florida Department of Education (www.fldoe.org) Florida Department of Education, Office of Independent Education & Parental Choice (www.floridaschoolchoice.org) Georgia Georgia Charter Schools Association (www.gacharters.org) Georgia Department of Education (www.doe.k12.ga.us) Hawaii Hawaii Department of Education (doe.k12.hi.us) Idaho Idaho Charter School Network (csi.boisestate.edu/icsn.htm) Idaho State Board of Education (www.boardofed.idaho.gov) Idaho State Department of Education (www.sde.idaho.gov) Illinois Illinois Network of Charter Schools (www.incschools.org) Illinois State Board of Education (www.isbe.state.il.us) Indiana Charter School Service Center (www.incssc.org) Indiana Department of Education (www.doe.in.gov) Indiana Public Charter Schools Association (www.incharters.org) Iowa Iowa Department of Education (www.iowa.gov/educate/) Kansas Kansas State Department of Education (www.ksde.org) Louisiana Louisiana Department of Education (www.doe.state.la.us) Maryland Maryland Charter School Network (www.mdcharternetwork.org) Maryland State Department of Education (www.marylandpublicschools.org)

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Data Sources Massachusetts Massachusetts Charter Public School Association (www.masscharterschools.org) Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (www.doe.mass.edu) Michigan Michigan Association of Public School Academies (www.charterschools.org) Michigan Department of Education, Center for Educational Performance and Information (www.michigan.gov/cepi) Minnesota Minnesota Association of Charter Schools (www.mncharterschools.org) Minnesota Department of Education (education.state.mn.us) University of Minnesota, Center for School Change (centerforschoolchange.org) Mississippi Mississippi Department of Education (www.mde.k12.ms.us) Missouri Missouri Charter Public School Association (www.mocharterschools.org) Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (dese.mo.gov) Nevada Nevada Department of Education (www.doe.nv.gov) Nevada Public Charter Schools (nvpubliccharterschools.org) New Hampshire New Hampshire Center for School Reform (www.nhschoolreform.org) New Hampshire Department of Education (www.ed.state.nh.us/education) New Jersey New Jersey Charter Public Schools Association (www.njcharters.org) New Jersey Charter School Resource Center (www.njcharterschools.org) New Jersey Department of Education (www.state.nj.us/education) New Mexico New Mexico Coalition for Public Charter Schools (nmccs.org) New Mexico Public Education Department (www.ped.state.nm.us)

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Data Sources New York New York Charter Schools Association (www.nycsa.org) New York City Charter School Center (www.nycchartercenter.org) New York State Education Department (www.nysed.gov) New York State Testing and Accountability Reporting Tool (www.nystart.gov/publicweb) The State University of New York, Charter Schools Institute (www.newyorkcharters.org) North Carolina North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (www.dpi.state.nc.us) Ohio Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (www.oapcs.org) Ohio Department of Education (www.ode.state.oh.us) Oklahoma Oklahoma State Department of Education (sde.state.ok.us) Oregon Oregon Department of Education (www.ode.state.or.us) Northwest Center for Educational Options (www.nwceo.org) Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Coalition of Charter School (www.pachartercoalition.com) Pennsylvania Department of Education (www.pde.state.pa.us) Rhode Island Rhode Island Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (www.ride.ri.gov) Rhode Island League of Charter Schools (www.richarterschools.com) South Carolina South Carolina Association of Public Charter Schools (www.scapcs.org) South Carolina Department of Education (ed.sc.gov) Tennessee Tennessee Charter Schools Association (www.tncharterschools.org) Tennessee Department of Education (www.tennessee.gov/education)

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Data Sources Texas Texas Education Agency (www.tea.state.tx.us) Texas Resource Center for Charter Schools (www.charterstexas.org) Utah Utah Association of Public Charter Schools (utahcharters.org) Utah Office of Education (www.usoe.k12.ut.us) Virginia Virginia Department of Education (www.doe.virginia.gov) Washington, D.C. District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (www.dcpubliccharter.com) District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (www.osse.dc.gov) Wisconsin Wisconsin Charter Schools Association (www.wicharterschools.org) Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (dpi.wi.gov) Wyoming Wyoming Department of Education (www.k12.wy.us)

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