
The Sport for Good Atlanta Alliance will focus on five areas: Education, Employment & Income, Health & Well-Being, Community Cohesion, and Sustainability.
Because we envision thriving communities on Atlanta’s Westside, these focus areas intentionally address a range of factors that enable youth, their families, and their communities to flourish. Within each focus area, each working group identified specific outcomes, which serve as the long-term goals for their work, and objectives, which function as guideposts as they implement the strategies. Check out our PLAYBOOK for the details.
All told, we expect to affect over 7,000 households within the target communities over the next three years.
Educational Outcomes:
- Youth graduate prepared to pursue their dreams.
- Youth engaged in sport based youth development (SBYD) programs in target communities graduate from high school prepared for entry into educational & career pathways.
Enrollment
3rd Grade Reading Proficiency
8th Grade Math Proficiency
High School Graduate Rates
School Mobility
School Climate Ratings
Higher Education Attainment
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Enrollment
Data Source: American Community Survey (2013-2017)
Georgia Milestones Testing
Data Source: Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) (2018)
3rd Grade Reading Proficiency:
F. L. Stanton Elementary
7% Decrease between the 2 school years
Kindezi
16.9% Increase between the 2 school years
KIPP Strive Primary
11.5% Increase between the 2 school years
M. Agnes Jones Elementary
5% Decrease between the 2 school years
Atlanta Public Schools
0.7% Increase between the 2 school years
State of Georgia
1% Increase between the 2 school years
The City of Atlanta slightly underperforms in 3rd grade reading proficiency when compared to the state. Performance varies greatly among the four elementary schools in the cluster, with Kindezi and KIPP Strive outperforming the city and Stanton and Jones underperforming. Kindezi and KIPP registered strong improvement from the 2016 to 2017 school years, with both starting from proficiency levels lower than the state but moving in the period to better performance levels.
8th Grade Math Proficiency:
BEST Academy
14.9% Increase between the 2 school years
Brown Middle
6.1% Increase between the 2 school years
Kindezi
0.1% Decrease between the 2 school years
KIPP Strive Academy
8.5% Increase between the 2 school years
KIPP West Atlanta Young Scholars Academy
23.1% Increase between the 2 school years
Atlanta Public Schools
7.6% Increase between the 2 school years
State of Georgia
No Change between the 2 school years
KIPP West Atlanta and KIPP Strive Academy each outperformed both the City of Atlanta and the state of Georgia. Both registered strong improvements during the one-year period. Kindezi stayed steady, and while 8th grade reading proficiency at Brown doubled in the evaluation period, nearly 90 percent of 8th graders attending in 2017-2018 still were not proficient in math.
High School Graduation Rates:
BEST Academy
11.1% Increase between the 2 school years
Washington High
6.1% Increase between the 2 school years
Douglass High
0.77% Increase between the 2 school years
Atlanta Public Schools
2.9% Increase between the 2 school years
State of Georgia
1% Increase between the 2 school years
All area schools saw their graduation rates improve in 2017-2018. Two of the three area high schools (BEST and Washington) improved their graduation rate faster even than the City of Atlanta, at 9.2 percentage points and 6.4 percentage points respectively. BEST’s overall graduation rate also exceeded the city average by 4 percentage points in the 2017-2018 school year. In the case of Douglass High, the graduation rate did increase by 0.8 percentage point across the two school years, but still lagged the city average by 10 percentage points.
Student Mobility Rates
Data Source: Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) (2018)
Elementary Schools Mobility Rates:
Mobility rates in Kindezi and Kipp Strive are among the lowest in the City of Atlanta, at 5 percent and 2 percent, respectively, in the 2017-2018 school year. The rates declined at a slower pace than did the city as whole during the past two school years, but they are so low as to have little room to fall.
The story is much less positive in Stanton and Jones Elementary Schools, where rates are 20 and 10 percentage points (respectively) higher than those seen citywide. However, those two schools are making improvements at a faster pace than the City.
Middle Schools Mobility Rate:
Mobility rates in BEST Academy and Kipp STRIVE are down over the past two school years for which there are data; in the case of Kipp STRIVE the rate has dropped to just above 5 percent, and BEST’s mobility rate fell 10 percentage points to just over 15 percent. Mobility in both those middle schools is well below levels seen citywide.
Rates in the other two schools in the cluster (Kipp West and Brown) have increased across the two school years, but the similarity ends there. Kipp West’s mobility rate remains (in 2017-2018) at 11 percent, less than half the city average; Brown’s rate, on the other hand, not only increased 5 percentage points over the periods, but at 47.3 percent was approaching twice the average rate (24 percent) for the city overall.
High Schools Mobility Rate:
BEST Academy’s mobility rate not only fell faster than the city’s between the two school years, but in 2017-2018 stood nearly ten percentage points lower (at 15.5 percent) than the City average (at 24.2 percent). While the mobility rates for Washington and Douglass High were both higher in both periods than the city and BEST Academy rates, they did show improvement — a 3 percentage point drop in mobility for Douglass and a 6.6 percentage point lower mobility for Washington.
School Climate
Data Source: Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) (2018)
* Climate survey responses from students, parents, and teachers/staff; * Student discipline; * Safe and substance-free learning environment; * Student, teacher, administrator, and staff attendance; and * Other factors.
Elementary Schools’ School Climate Rate:
F. L. Stanton Elementary
2018 School Climate Rate:

Kindezi School Elementary
2018 School Climate Rate:

KIPP Strive Academy
2018 School Climate Rate:

M. Agnes Jones Elementary
2018 School Climate Rate:

Middle Schools’ School Climate Rate:
Brown Middle
2018 School Climate Rate:

Best Academy
2018 School Climate Rate:

KIPP Strive Primary Charter
2018 School Climate Rate:

KIPP West Atlanta Young Scholar
2018 School Climate Rate:

High Schools’ School Climate Rate:
Washington High
2018 School Climate Rate:

Douglass High
2018 School Climate Rate:

BEST Academy
2018 School Climate Rate:

Elementary and middle schools show a similar pattern: KIPP Strive Academy has the highest climate rating among elementary schools, at four stars. Among middle schools, Kipp Strive and West Atlanta both has a four star rating, while Brown and BEST Middle have two. Notably, BEST's performance on proficiency measures exceeds Brown's, so targeted investments in climate improvement at Brown could be expected to move the needle.
Among high schools, Washington High has a higher climate rating than BEST Academy, even though Washington is a lower performing school on most proficiency measures. This would suggest that Washington has key advantages that can be leveraged in increasing student performance. Douglass High seems to have significant challenges, which holds the sole one-star climate rating in the project area, as well as low proficiency scores.
Higher Education Attainment
Data Source: American Community Survey (2013-2017)
The study area as a whole saw a dramatic increase in educational attainment. In 2000, the shares of residents without a high school diploma were generally twice or more the shares seen citywide. By 2017, shares of residents without a high school diploma in the cluster had dropped to levels comparable to — though still slightly higher than — citywide shares. This coincided with an increase in the shares of residents holding a bachelor's degree or higher, though the percent of higher degree holders in the project area remains lower than the citywide rate.
High School Graduate Outcomes
Data Source: Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) (2018)