Full-Service Community Schools grantee and partner school characteristics

 

Today, the Institute of Education Sciences released Expanding the Reach of the Full-Service Community Schools Program. The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program awards five-year grants to states, districts, or other organizations to help partner schools implement community schools. Community schools are intended to serve as hubs that coordinate and integrate a wide range of services and supports that meet the unique needs of students and communities. This study snapshot examines whether the FSCS grant program helped expand the community school approach to schools that are consistent with program priorities: schools that are high poverty, located in rural areas, and new to or not yet fully implementing their community school approach. Data for this study snapshot come from the Common Core of Data and surveys of fiscal year 2023 FSCS grantees and their partner schools. Grant awards were made in November 2023, and surveys were administered from May through October 2024. Findings include: FSCS grantees almost exclusively served high-poverty schools and almost half of schools were rural. Grantees predominantly served partner schools that were not yet fully implementing the community school approach and school districts that were new to the grant program. To access the study snapshot, please visit: https://ies.ed.gov/use-work/resource-library/report/snapshot/expanding-reach-full-service-community-schools-program.