Results

Rocketship Results

We believe that all children have potential and that great public schools unleash that potential.

But the quality of public education in our country today still depends on where you live and how much money your parents earn. We are building a movement to create educational equity in disadvantaged communities across our country. We still have a long way to go to realize our vision, but the progress we are making is transformational.

Read our 2022
Year in Review

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Recognized as Among the Best in the Nation

US News & World Report named nine Rocketship schools as among the Best Elementary Schools in the nation. These rankings are based solely on test scores – meaning that our schools are among the top in the nation, even compared to schools in wealthier zip codes. This is what it looks like to eliminate the achievement gap! Read more here.

Celebrating 15 Years of Unleashing Potential

We have unleashed innovation and truly transformative change in our neighborhoods from San Jose to Washington, DC. Over the past 15 years, we have collectively served over 27,000 students. We have Rocketeers who have graduated college and are working in state capitols, in high-tech labs, and advocating for their communities. We have excellent educators who are masters at their craft—pushing to new levels of pedagogical innovation every single day. And we have entire communities where parents are unleashing their voices and power to advocate for equity and excellence. We are truly unleashing potential, from coast to coast.

Educator Diversity Benefits All Students

An increasing body of research shows that student achievement and attendance go up and suspension rates go down when students have at least one same-race teacher. Yet a recent federal report from the Institute of Education Sciences shows that America’s teaching force hasn’t increased in diversity. 79% of the nation’s public school teachers are white. We are flipping the diversity in education script at Rocketship. The majority of our educators – 78% – identify as people of color.

Engaging Parents During the Pandemic

Parents are a child’s first teachers and lifelong advocates. They hold extraordinary power to change outcomes for their children and improve the quality of their community. By unleashing the power of parents to champion their children’s education and hold leaders and systems accountable we can enable high-quality public schools to thrive and endure. That is why Parent Power is a founding pillar of our model. Our approach to personalized learning is focused on building deep relationships with the families we serve. It starts with our annual home visits. Every school year, our teachers visit the homes of their students. This annual practice enables our team to develop much stronger relationships with our families and a deeper understanding of how to best serve each and every Rocketeer.

of families reported that their children were happy and excited to come to school each day

Teachers and leaders across our network completed more than 9,111 home visits with families before Thanksgiving break. We continued meeting with families three more times throughout the year during familyteacher conferences and at monthly, community cafecitos where we kept parents informed about health and safety protocols and opportunities to support their child’s learning and our broader school communities.

Academic Recovery Gains Major Momentum

The 2021-22 school year was full of unprecedented challenges. As the Delta variant swept across the nation at the start of the school year, learning was once again disrupted with extended absences and quarantines for both students and staff. In the second semester, our schools began to settle into a more normal routine. In every region, we ended the school year with incredible momentum. Although we know a full recovery to the levels of excellence we achieved pre-pandemic will take multiple school years, we are encouraged by the progress our Rocketeers made by the end of the 2021-22 school year. On the nationally normed NWEA Map assessment, our Rocketeers achieved 1.4 years of growth in reading and 1.3 years of growth in math between our mid-year (winter) and end-of-year assessments (spring).