Communities In Schools Of Jacksonville

Communities in schools of jacksonville offers a quality, free, afterschool program in elementary, middle and high duval county public schools to provide students with a safe environment where they can complete their homework under certified teacher supervision and have the opportunity to participate in enrichment activities like sports, symphony and robotics. For students in kindergarten through eighth grade, the afterschool program operates monday through friday for three hours each day and focuses on six core areas - academic enrichment, sports and recreation, life skills, cultural enrichment, parental involvement and community service. Each afternoon, students are welcomed into a general meeting place, checked in by quality after-school staff and enjoy a nutritious snack. Students then spend up to 75 minutes each day working on academics under the supervision of a certified teacher and after-school staff members. After academics, students participate in enrichment activities such as cheerleading, dance, arts and crafts, and sports. Each of these activities is led by highly qualified after-school staff members who are background screened by duval county public schools. Certain afterschool sites are able to offer unique opportunities to students. The jump start strings program, in partnership with the jacksonville symphony orchestra, allows elementary school students to learn and play string instruments while being instructed by the symphony musicians. Participating students have a chance to perform for family and friends at the end of the school year. Other unique activities include robotics, animation and video production. After students complete these activities, they gather together to enjoy a nutritious dinner and then are dismissed and picked up by parents or approved guardians. Of the 2,076 students served in the first nine-week grading period of the 2024-25 school year: gpa - 2.71; 100% missed less than 21 days; 95% had no in-school or out-of-school suspensions; 23% male, 42% female; race: 1% american indian; 1% asisan/pacific, 73% black, 9% hispanic, 4% multi and 12% white. Cis serves an additional 271 students in the hope = success afterschool program in 6 high schools.

Since its inception in 1999, communities in schools of jacksonville's americorps duval reads literacy program has provided intensive one-on-one and small group literacy tutoring for underperforming students in elementary school who are reading at one or more grade levels below their class. Americorps members participate in a rigorous two-week training and orientation to learn how to identify students in need of literacy tutoring. Training consists of members learning the common core standards and utilizing the stars literacy curriculum to help support classroom instruction. Once the school year begins, members engage the school staff and principals to help identify students who need literacy tutoring as indicated by reading assessment scores. Student reading achievement is measured through cis's partnership with duval county public schools (dcps). Throughout the year, students and americorps tutors work with dcps-provided programs achieve3000 and i-ready to determine their status and progress in math and reading. The data is used to identify low-level readers, create a target data baseline of student reading skills and compare the pre- and post- test scores to measure progress of students throughout the academic year. The program's goals are to provide 90 minutes each week of individual and group literacy tutoring to at least 400 underperforming readers and for 80% of these readers to achieve reading improvement with 70% being promoted to the next grade level. The 819 students in the literacy program achieved the following in the first nine-week grading period of the 2024-25 school year: 99% missed less than 21 days of school; 99% had no in-school suspensions; 97% had no out- of-school suspensions; 49% male, 51% female; race: 1% american indian, 73% black, 11% hispanic, 4% multi, 1% pacific and 10% white.