Transforming the lives of students and families.
The nation’s best public charter schools are making it possible for families to find more schools that fit their children’s learning needs and create enhanced opportunities for life success.
Academic Results
The charter networks that we support represent some of the nation’s most successful operators of public schools.
~75th
The average CSGF-supported school’s performance ranks in the top quartile of schools in their states that serve students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
80%
Roughly 80% of the 16,000+ graduates of CSGF portfolio high schools matriculated to college, a credential program, or the military.
3x
CSGF portfolio schools help students from low-income backgrounds read on grade level at a rate that is >3x higher than statistical expectations.
Growth & Reach
The schools that we have supported enroll over 650,000 students, of whom 73 percent are from low-income backgrounds and 91 percent are of color.
35%
Charter networks supported by CSGF opened roughly 35% of all new charter schools that opened in Fall 2022.
53K
Last year, CSGF made commitments that will enable charter networks to serve nearly 53,000 additional students every year going forward.
67%
67% of the networks in the CSGF portfolio are led by people of color and 53% are led by women.
GROWTH HIGHLIGHTS
The number of students enrolled in the public charter schools that we have supported has increased more than 16-fold over the past decade. Within the next three years, our portfolio could serve nearly 750k students—and in doing so, prepare more students to succeed in college than any single school district in the country.