Research and Data
Discover the impact of California charter schools.
2024 Portrait of the Movement
The 2024 Portrait of the Movement: How California’s Charter Public Schools Are Preparing Students for College and Career focuses on ten exceptional charter public schools – and five innovative practices that they share – which are helping to send significantly more historically disadvantaged students to four-year colleges or careers compared to the state average.
For more data and research, check out our library below.
College Readiness/Access Reports
- Post-Secondary Access and Achievement at CSUs (2019)
- A Comparative Look at College Outcomes for California Public School Graduates (2019)
- University of California Application, Admittance and Enrollment (2019)
- A Step Up: How Charter Schools Provide Higher Levels of California Public University Access (2016)
- A Promise Fulfilled: How Los Angeles Charter Schools Answer the College Readiness Challenge (2014)
Equity and Diversity
- Rural Student Performance (2023)
- The Face of Charter Public School Teachers (2023)
- Charter Public School Students in Focus: Asian American and Pacific Islanders (2022)
- Two Charter Public Schools, One Mission: Latino Academic Excellence (2021)
- Native American Students in Charters (2020)
- Rural Student Performance (2020)
- Charting the Course to Equity: K-12 leaders of color and student success (2019)
Black/African-American Students
- Serving Black Students with Excellence: California Charter Schools Working to Close Opportunity Gaps (2021)
- Black Student Performance in Charter Schools Overview (2020)
English Learners
- English Learners in California Charter Public Schools (2023)
- English Learners (2020)
- Success for English Learners in Charter Schools (2015)