Screenings & Outcomes
TOP utilizes nationally recognized Brigance and myIGDIs kindergarten-readiness assessments to evaluate students’ short-term academic gains. Likewise, through partnerships with Wichita State University and participating unified school districts, TOP kids’ educational outcomes are tracked until they graduate high school.
Brigance Testing
myIGDIs
These screeners are administered to TOP children in the fall, winter, and spring before they begin kindergarten. The screeners measure literacy skills.
62% of TOP kids entering kindergarten are ready to read. 84% of TOP kids are on their way to success in numeracy, and TOP exceeds class quality instructional support by 32%.
Conclusively, TOP Schools make a powerful and lasting difference in children’s lives.
TOP Early Learning Centers 2022-2023 Longitudinal Study Results
Thus far, we have determined:
- TOP graduates’ averaged a 90.6% attendance rate. In 11 of 13 grades, they surpassed the attendance rate of their Control Group peers.
- Overall, TOP graduates were 13% less likely than the Control Group to be in special education.
- On average, TOP graduates had equal or higher grade point averages than their Control Group peers in 6 of 7 grades reported.
- 67% of TOP graduates were ranked by their teachers as having “Low Risk,” when it came to social behaviors. This means TOP kids displayed better social behaviors and more appropriate social functioning than kids in the Control Group.
- 56% of TOP graduates were ranked by their teachers as “Low Risk,” in regard to academic behaviors, indicating they displayed better academic behavior and more appropriate academic functioning than the Control Group.
- On reading standardized tests, TOP graduates, in all seven grades tested, were 7.3% less likely to “Perform Below Grade Level (Level 1)” than their Control Group peers. They were also 33% more likely to perform “At Grade Level, Progressing Toward College Readiness.”
- On math standardized tests, TOP graduates in all seven grades tested, were 6.6% less likely to perform “Below Grade Level” and 26.3% more likely to perform “At Grade Level, Progressing Toward College Readiness (Level 3).”
“The amount our children have actually learned from attending TOP Early Learning Center South is astounding! They come home sharing all sorts of new knowledge and interesting facts. They excitedly talk about their fun experiences and activities, with each new day!”
– Megan L. | Parent, TOP Early Learning Centers