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.
57% of TOP kids entering kindergarten are ready to read. 89% 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 2023-2024 Longitudinal Study Results (full report)
Thus far, we have determined:
- TOP graduates’ averaged a 91% attendance rate. In 13 of 13 grades, they surpassed the attendance rate of their Control Group peers.
- Overall, TOP graduates were 24% less likely than the Control Group to be in special education.
- On average, TOP graduates had higher grade point averages than their Control Group peers in 7 of 7 grades reported.
- 75% of TOP graduates were ranked by their teachers as having “Low Risk ” social behaviors compared to 67% of the Control Group. This means TOP kids displayed better social behaviors and more appropriate social functioning than kids in the Control Group.
- 77% of TOP graduates were ranked by their teachers as “Low Risk” regarding academic behaviors compared to 65% of the Control Group, indicating they displayed better academic behavior and more appropriate academic functioning than the Control Group.
- 75% of TOP graduates were ranked by their teachers as having “Low Risk” emotional behaviors, compared to 69% of the Control Group, meaning they displayed better emotional behavior and more appropriate emotional functioning.
- On standardized reading tests, TOP graduates in all seven grades tested were 7% less likely to “Perform Below Grade Level (Level 1)” than their Control Group peers. They were also 30% more likely to perform “At Grade Level, Progressing Toward College Readiness.”
- On math standardized tests, TOP graduates in all seven grades tested were 15% less likely to perform “Below Grade Level” and 46% 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