Results
Though college-level outcomes are years away, we build our program around the strongest predictors of college success and monitor benchmarks at every step of the way.
Bottom line: In its first program year, Blue Engine’s small-group instructional model increased the percentage of ninth grade students achieving college-ready scores of 80 and higher by 187% (year over year) on the 2011 New York State Regents Examination in Algebra.
Our partnership helped drive significant improvements in “college-ready” performance on the June 2011 Integrated Algebra Regents Exams. 43% of 9th graders at WHEELS demonstrated college-ready math skills as measured by scores of 80+ on the exam, a near tripling of the proportion of 9th graders who reached this bar the prior year. 89% of 9th graders passed the exam with scores of at least 65, significantly surpassing the city average of 55%.
Blue Engine created upward pressure on academic rigor by doubling the expected enrollment among in Geometry for the 2011-12 school year (year two of our WHEELS partnership). Students are also now more prepared for the demands of a rigorous Geometry course, as the minimum Integrated Algebra Regents Exam score of any student enrolled is a 75. These students are now one step closer to advanced mathematics (Algebra II, Trigonometry, Calculus, and Statistics), courses that rank among the strongest predictors of college success.
