Impact

Our ultimate goal is that every Achiever graduate from high school and continue on to succeed in college. Friends of the Children-Boston collects data from many different sources to track progress towards this goal and assess our effectiveness. In the 2008-2009 school year:

• 93% of Achievers progressed on time to the next grade and 87% of Achievers attended school regularly.
• Achievers improved from 77% passing to 81% passing in MCAS English & Language Arts and from 62% to 74% passing in MCAS Mathematics.

In the longest-standing Friends of the Children site in Portland, Oregon:

• 96% of participants attend school regularly
• 80% of program graduates have earned a high school diploma or GED, with 86% being the first in their families to do so.
• 97% of adolescents have avoided early pregnancy despite 60% having been born to a teen mother.