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Results matter.

Partnership Schools form students with the knowledge, character, and habits they need to flourish in high school, college, and beyond. 

In our first decade, the impact of our work is clear.

Our students have achieved game-changing gains in both reading and math—growth that put our students’ achievement levels far above neighboring schools and on par with New York city, state, and charter averages. 

And in the post-COVID world, our students are experiencing substantive academic growth—at a time when the headlines from schools across the nation are too often one of learning loss and academic decline.

NWEA MAP Reading
MEDIAN PERCENTILES: LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS*
2019 NATIONAL
ALL GRADES
US FALL 2019
US FALL 2021
PARTNERSHIP NYC FALL 2021
*OVER 75% FREE AND REDUCED-LUNCH ELIGIBLE
NWEA MAP MATH
MEDIAN PERCENTILES: LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS*
2019 NATIONAL
ALL GRADES
US FALL 2019
US FALL 2021
PARTNERSHIP NYC FALL 2021
*OVER 75% FREE AND REDUCED-LUNCH ELIGIBLE

The strength of the academic preparation they have received has propelled our graduates forward into opportunities in high school and college. For more on Partnership students’ journeys to high school and college, click here, here, here, and here.

I’m first-generation, and it’s a big deal for me to be going off to college.

— RAVEN, MT. CARMEL – HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL ’18,
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN ’22,
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ’26

Partnership Schools—indeed, all Catholic schools—educate the whole child: we form students’ values and habits, cultivate a sense of awe at God’s loving presence, and awaken young people to the meaning our lives gain only in service to others.

Catholic schools have a unique power to impact character because they cultivate a strong sense of community that helps students become their best selves in a supportive environment. For more on how our Partnership Schools do that, click here.

I will leave Archbishop Lyke School knowing I attended a great Catholic school that helped me and taught me to be a better person. For that, I am very thankful.

— LAILA, ARCHBISHOP LYKE ’22,
TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL-OH, ’26

For more research on the impact of Catholic schools on young people’s life outcomes, click here and here.

Ensuring that all families have access to Catholic schools, regardless of their income, is at the core of what Partnership Schools does. We know from experience that when families have an excellent faith-based school in their community that they can afford, they come.

 

Growing enrollment is the first step. The long game is preparing future leaders…whose lives will make God known, loved, and served.

—CHRISTIAN DALLAVIS, PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT

Artists speak of “art through adversity.” The idea is that great art is born not from excess, but from constraint. The necessity of keeping costs down to sustain our schools well into the future has required us to innovate and focus on the effective practices that help schools go from good to great.

I don’t need any more evidence that Partnership Schools are doing a good job, but if I did, all I have to do is look around today.

—CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN