ICEF Public Schools:

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• ICEF Public Schools
• Education Corridor
• September 2008

ICEF MISSION ICEF Public Schools (Inner City
Education Foundation) will transform South Los
Angeles into a stable, economically vibrant
community by providing first-rate educational
opportunities and annually graduating 2,000 high
school students.
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South Los Angeles 45 square miles that deserve
the undivided attention of an organization that
can deliver. ICEF is unique among charter school
organizations in that it is concentrating efforts
in a single, discrete area and serves students
from K-12.
U.S.
Student
Rank
Enrollment
National Impact As a stand-alone geographical
region, South LA would be Americas 19th most
populous city and 33rd largest school district.
District
2.
Los Angeles Unified
721,000
17.
San Diego Unified
142,000
25.
Baltimore Co.
107,000
26.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
103,000
27.
Baltimore City
100,000
29.
Jefferson Co.
97,000
30.
Dekalb Co.
96,000
31.
Long Beach Unified
94,000
32.
Albuquerque
85,000
33.
South Los Angeles
82,571
34.
Ft. Worth ISD
80,000
35.
Fresno Unified
79,000
36.
Austin ISD
78,000
37.
Orleans Parish
78,000
38.
Cleveland Municipal
76,000
39.
Jordan
73,000
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South Los Angeles Students Are Being Failed by
the System
The entire area of South Los Angeles produces
only 450 college graduates per year fewer than
9 of all freshmen who enter District high
schools.
Key Findings

• About 38 of freshmen graduate in South Los
  Angeles
• Only 13 graduate meeting A-G requirements
• Fewer than 1 out of 10 students who enter as
  freshmen in a South LA high school will become
  college graduates
• An additional 100 students from area charter
  schools are also projected to graduate college

Class of 2005-06 performance at six major South
L.A. high schools Crenshaw, Dorsey, Manual Arts,
Washington Prep, Morningside, and
Inglewood Source California Department of
Education - DataQuest http//dq.cde.ca.gov/dataqu
est/ California Postsecondary
Education Commission http//www.cpec.ca.gov
The UC/CSU enrollment is the only system for
which data is available
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The Problem is that students in South LA are
Unprepared for College

• Key Findings
• Fewer than 20 of high school graduates at these
  district schools are college-ready.
• Only 1.6 of students entering these district
  schools in 9th grade will matriculate to a UC
  school 5.1 to a Cal State.
• The average graduation rate for an
  African-American student from a UC is 63 Cal
  State 40.
• Out of 1,000 students from this area attending a
  district school, only 9 will graduate from a UC
  and 19 from a Cal State.

Percentage of high school students entering in
9th grade that are admissible to college
College-ready is defined by whether students
have the bare minimum qualifications necessary
before a college will even consider their
applications. - The Manhattan Institute 2003
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The ICEF Education Corridor Our Plan for South
Los Angeles
Our VisionICEFs vision is to develop an
Education Corridor of high-performing schools
that will dramatically increase the number of
high school graduates in South Los Angeles,
prepare them to perform and compete at the top
100 colleges and universities in the nation and
to return to become the catalysts for an economic
and social transformation in South LA.

• GOALS
• Grow the EDUCATION CORRIDOR from 13 to 35.
  high-performing public schools in the next four
  years.
• Be fully-enrolled by 2016.
• Prepare and help produce 2,000 college graduates
  each year.
• OUTCOMES
• 1 in 4 students in South Los Angeles will attend
  an ICEF Public School.
• 51 of all high school students will attend an
  ICEF high school.
• 2,000 college graduates will return to South LA
  each year to be catalysts for an economic
  transformation.

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Our Theory of Change

• Support the local economy
• Small business support
• Investment with Broadway Federal Bank

2,000 college graduates per year
Increase economic development in a focused
geographic region
1 in 4 students in South LA will attend an ICEF
School

• Increase college graduates by 500
• Rigorous college prep curriculum
• Increase number of students served

Decrease social problems in the inner city
51 of all high school students will attend an
ICEF Public High School
ICEF Education Corridor
Become national model for economic revitalization

• Create competition
• Prompt improvements in traditional schools
• Outperform similar traditional schools
• Provide school choice for families
• Pull students back into the community for K-12
  education

Increase percentage of middle class in South LA
and Inglewood
Action Steps
Outcomes
Outputs
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ICEFs Community Investment

• Financial Investment
• ICEF Public Schools is a Top Ten depositor at
  Broadway Federal Bank, having deposited over 50
  M
• Spent over 10M on local, minority-owned
  businesses since 1995
• Many ICEF schools are choosing to use local
  minority-owned business for school lunch programs
• Infrastructure and Employee Investment
• Constructed two school campuses with over 50
  discretionary dollars directed to local minority
  contractors/workers
• ICEF employees, parent advisors, and community
  members at its schools

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Proven Education Model

• OUR THEORY
• Powerful Educational Principles
• Teach to the top 25 of the class with material a
• year ahead of grade level rapid intervention so
  that ALL
• students perform at high levels.
• Innovative Curriculum
• Early literacy 100 literacy by end of 1st
  grade
• Proprietary 6th-12th grade writing-across-the-
• curriculum program 9th Grade Success Initiative.
• Strong Academic Design
• Small Schools/Small Class Size and 12 Focused
• Learning Time.
• Parents as Partners
• Parent advisor funded at each site.
• Parents volunteer 40 hours annually.

• OUR PRACTICE
• Creating a College-Going Culture
• Objective-based decision making at school sites
  to prepare
• students to be successful at college.
• Promoting Study Skills for College Success
• Enable students with study skills, ability to
  self-
• direct and love literature.
• College-Level Analytical Writing
• Toulmin Model of writing is used with students
  beginning in
• the 6th grade and applied across all core
  classes.
• ICEF graduates can write a sustained case of
  1500-2000
• words free of mechanical error in a readable
  style.
• College-Level Discourse
• Socratic Seminars in all classes teach students
  the

All of ICEFs schools outperform their
neighborhood schools on API scores.
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13 ICEF Schools NOW Serve Over 3,000 Students in
South Los Angeles
List of Schools 2008-2009 1. VPP Elementary 2.
VPP Middle 3. VPP High 4. FDA Elementary 5. FDA
Middle 6. FDA High 7. Lou Dantzler Elementary 8.
Lou Dantzler Middle 9. Lou Dantzler High 10. T
Marshall Middle 11. T Marshall High 12. ICEF
Vista Elementary 13. ICEF Vista Middle
In 2009, ICEF will be operating 20 public charter
schools. The Education Corridor will be more
than 50 complete and serving over 5,000
students.
Inglewood Unified HS
LA Unified High School
ICEF Public School
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ICEF has demonstrated outstanding student
achievement

• Graduation Success
• 100 of students graduated
• 100 of students were admitted to a 2- or 4-year
  college
• 1 student has deferred to join the Air Force for
  scholarship purposes
• 645 college applications submitted by 71 students
• 86.5 of students are attending a 4- year college
  or university
• Students are attending the best universities in
  the nation

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ICEF Outperforms Neighborhood Schools
High School
Elementary
Middle
VPP - 814
800
800
800
VPP - 779
54th ES - 767
FD MS - 728
LDMS - 707
700
700
700
TMMS - 704
LD HS - 663
59th Street - 677
FD HS - 662
API Score
VPP HS - 651
Angeles Mesa - 643
Foshay LC - 645
TMHS - 611
Cochran - 605
600
600
600
Audubon - 578
Gompers - 561
John Muir - 553
Horace Mann - 544
Dorsey - 544
Henry Clay - 524
Crenshaw - 524
Manual Arts - 513
500
500
500
TMHS score was re-calculated by ICEFs Data
Management Team to include all of the students
enrolled. The CDE score was calculated with less
than 30 students. Schools are 2007 data. GW
Prep HS, Crenshaw HS and Manual Arts HS did not
test enough students to be counted in 2008.
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ICEF Graduates are Prepared to Succeed in College
The Percentage of High School Graduates
Completing All Courses Required for UC and/or CSU
Entrance
Key Findings

• Statewide 10 of African-American males graduated
  high school eligible for CSU or UC admission
• In California, 14 of African-American males in
  the senior class actually make it to graduation
  prepared for college

Class of 2005-06 Performance in six major South
Los Angeles high school Crenshaw, Dorsey, Manual
Arts, Washington Prep, Morningside, and Inglewood
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ICEF Expansion is On-Track
ICEF has developed the model and capacity to
achieve superior results at scale.

• I
• Prove the Model

• II
• Replication
• Capacity Building

• III
• Expand to Achieve Scale

Phase Goal
We Are Here
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Returning to South LAICEF College Graduates
Education Corridor As ICEF expands and students
attend and graduate college, South LA will begin
to see an influx of college- educated youth
beginning with the first View Park Prep Class in
2011.