California's Charter Schools: How Are They Performing?

May 2006
This second annual analysis of charter school performance in California compared how well charter schools did versus noncharters, as measured by the percentage of schools that met their 2005 Academic Performance Index (API) growth targets. The 20-page report also looks at charter school performance by grade level (elementary, middle, and high schools) and by charter type—start-ups versus conversions; classroom-based versus nonclassroom-based. Moreover, using data from a spring 2005 EdSource survey, it compares the performance of charters by the amount of student instructional time and degree of school autonomy.

Also included are:

• background on charter schools in California;
• a discussion of the difficulty of comparing charters to noncharters, given complex differences;
• numerous explanations and tables; and
• an emerging picture of California's nonclassroom-based charter schools.

You can download this report for free.

Related resources:

• Executive Summary:
  

  Executive Summary: California's Charter Schools: How Are They Performing?

• Previous findings (released in 2005):
  

  How are California's Charter Schools Performing?

• 2005 Survey (PDF 37 KB)

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