Agmt16 Redwood City School District - Community Schools

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Exhibit A REDWOOD CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS PROGRAM DESCRIPTION and ACCOUNTABILITY Redwood City School District ("RCSD") operates six full-service Community Schools, serving 3, 182 students in Kindergarten through eighth grade. The goal of the Community Schools approach is to address the barriers to learning by more efficiently coordinating efforts and resources to bolster students' learning, strengthen families, and promote healthy communities. Community Schools directly align with San Mateo County's 2025 shared vision around building a healthy, prosperous and collaborative community. RCSD's network of full-service community schools provides students and their families with daily expanded learning opportunities, counseling support, family engagement opportunities, and a wide range of safety net services — all in a coordinated manner. RCSD Community School Achievements 0 Students whose parents accessed family engagement programs and those who accessed both safety net supports and extended learning programs for at least two years had significant achievement gains in math compared to non-participants. 0 Students whose families were involved in family engagement opportunities at Community Schools for three or more years exhibited greater growth in their attendance rate than their peers whose families had fewer years of participation. 0 English learners whose families were participating in Community School programs for three or more years showed greater gains in their English language proficiency. Program Goals Attendance: Attendance has been widely recognized by the research community as a leading indicator of student success or conversely absenteeism is an indicator of later school failure. RCSD monitors individual student attendance and has developed protocols to use attendance as an early warning sign for parents and educators to intervene and put students back on track. According to research students are at risk of being chronically absent if they miss 10% or more of school for any reason. Currently, 9% of Kinder and 1St graders are considered chronically absent (10%+) and 20% of K and 1St grade students at risk of becoming chronically absent (5%- to 9.9%). • Our goal is to reduce those rates in each of the groups as described: Chronically absent from 9% to 7% Manageably absent from 22% to 17% ATTY/AGR/2016.182/REDWOOD CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FY 16-17 REV: 07-12-16 RL Page 6 of 7