Berea College Partnership

Berea College

K-16 Partnership Commitment [White House Summit on College Opportunity, Dec. 2014]

GOAL:  Berea College Partnership is committed to the result that “all Knox County Students Succeed at School” and will implement a collective impact strategy aimed at county-wide goals and unlocking opportunities to help students and families overcome the high rates of poverty (240% above the U.S. average) in the Knox County area.

Goals include:

  • Increasing percentage of FAFSA completions by 20%, from 70% to 90%;
  • Increasing the percentage of students enrolling in postsecondary education from 57% to 60%;
  • Increasing the percentage of students who will not remediation upon entering college, from 35.5% to 45%;
  • Increasing the percentage of students completing bachelor’s degrees within six years of high school graduation from 37.7% to 55%; and
  • Increasing the percentage of students completing associate’s degrees within three years of high school graduation from 4.9% to 12%.

ACTION PLAN:  Berea College will partner with Knox County schools and the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to launch an early warning system that tracks individual student data–socio-economic status, school data, achievement data, CCR and ACT targets and benchmarks. The backbone of this system will be Kentucky’s data system and the KDE Progress To Graduation (PTG) report.

The Partnership will also use the ACT College and Career Readiness Targets to measure targets for students in grades 8 – 12. Schools currently assess students using ACT measures and determine baseline and annual targets for each student. Individual student data will be provided to staffs in real time via the Kentucky Department of Education student data system and used to direct student specific interventions. 

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