A recent study of CSF Philadelphia recipients found that 96% of alumni who left eighth grade in 2004 graduated from high school on time in 2008, compared to the Philadelphia public school graduation rate of only 62%.

A recent study of our San Francisco scholarship recipients estimates that 89-94% of CSF recipients graduated high school compared with a graduation rate of only 73% in the San Francisco Unified School District and only 46% in the Oakland Unified School District.

In Los Angeles, an independent researcher funded by the Broad Foundation has conducted a study of test scores and grades from a sample of children in our Los Angeles program. The study found that CSF recipients showed significant statistical growth in reading scores over a two-year period, and CSF recipients in general scored higher in reading than their public school counterparts.

Our Minneapolis program conducted its own survey of standardized test scores among recipients and found that in 2008, 89% of 8th scholarship recipients were proficient according to the Minnesota Basic Standards Math test and 94% showed proficiency in reading. By contrast, in the Minneapolis public schools, only 40% of 8th graders were proficient in math and 41% in reading; and in nearby St. Paul public schools, only 49% of 8th graders were proficient in math and 51% in reading.

The Minneapolis program also tracked its scholarship recipients who graduated from 8th grade with CSF scholarships in 2004. In 2008, 94% of those students graduated from high school on time – a rate much higher than the national average of 73%. In fact, 91% of the CSF students planned to enter college in September of 2008. Of the remaining 9%, 3% were enrolling in vocational or technical schools while another 6% planned to work for a year before returning to school.

In Memphis, researchers at Christian Brothers University measured both academic achievement and parental satisfaction for the MOST (Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust) program. During the 2001-2002 school year, their research compared standardized test scores of scholarship recipients with Memphis city public schools and found that scholarship recipients had higher scores than public school students in both reading and math at every grade level.

171 CSF Baltimore scholarship recipients in grades 3-8 were the subjects of a study released in the spring of 2007. The study was conducted by Practical Research, an independent Baltimore evaluation company, and showed that 92% of the students were at or above their grade level in reading and 91% were at or above their grade level in math. The study collected the children's grades in language arts, math, science and social studies during the 2005-06 school year.

A study of the Charlotte program found that CSF recipients showed gains in both math and reading scores after only one year of private school. The study, conducted by Jay Greene, reported that CSF recipients scored 5.9-6.2 points higher in math and 5.4-7.7 points higher in reading than children who didn't get a scholarship and remained in public school.

Harvard evaluations of our program in three cities (New York; Washington, DC; and Dayton, Ohio) showed that scholarships narrow the achievement gap between Black and White students in math and reading by about half.

A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University studied CSF recipients in Toledo, OH. They found that those who received a scholarship were significantly more likely to be altruistic towards charitable organizations than children who had not been awarded a scholarship.

We know that parents using CSF scholarships are much more satisfied with their children's schools than parents whose children remain in public school. A Harvard study found that CSF parents were about five times more likely to give their child's school an "A" than public school parents.