Based on end-of-year testing data, Washington’s established charter public schools demonstrated strong academic outcomes for systemically underserved students in the 2018-2019 school year.
Sector-wide:
- Low-income students outperformed their traditional public-school state or district peers in at least two out of three subjects at five out of seven currently operating schools that tested in the last assessment;
- Low-income students outperformed their traditional public-school peers in all tested subjects in three out of seven currently operating schools that tested.
Here is a look at how low-income students performed across the charter school sector.
| SCHOOLS WITH TESTED SUBJECTS 2018-2019 SY | STUDENTS FROM LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS |
| Pride Prep | Above district in state in 2 out of 3 tested subjects |
| Spokane International Academy | Above district and state in 3 out of 3 tested subjects |
| Rainier Prep | Above district and state in 3 out of 3 tested subjects |
| Summit Olympus | Above district and state in 2 out of 3 tested subjects |
| Summit Sierra | Above district and state in 1 out of 2 tested subjects with enough students to be significant |
| Summit Atlas | Above district and state in 2 out of 2 tested subjects |
| Rainier Valley Leadership Academy | Above state in 1 out of 2 tested subjects |
While the still-young sector also has made impacts on the larger traditional public school system in a variety of ways, including bringing scalable learning models to Washington state—such as the Summit Learning Platform, which is being taken up by a number of rural district, and advocating for increased public funding for systemically underserved students, which has resulted in significantly more public resources for students with disabilities.