Goal: Increase the percentage of children entering kindergarten school ready
Target: 70% by 2023
Key trends:The rate of school readiness among Central Texas kindergarteners dropped in 2019 to 50%, according to the E3<\/sup> Alliance with the help of experts from across the region. From 2010 to 2019 about half or slightly more than half of Central Texas kindergarteners were school ready.
Significant disparities exist between low income and non-low income students. In 2019, 38% of low income children were school ready, compared to 61% of non-low income children. Racial disparities also persist. White students are more likely than Hispanic students to be school ready. While the sample sizes for Black students are small and not statistically reliable , the data from this group over time seems to indicate a lower rate of school readiness. Students who attend pre-k prior to kindergarten are more likely to be ready for school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
what the data tell us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In 2019, half of Central Texas kindergartners were school ready according to data from the E3Alliance, analyzed with the help of experts from across the region. In 2019, 50% of Central Texas kindergartners arrived school ready, compared to 53% in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Definition: Percent of children who were assessed school ready Only half of children entering kindergarten ready for school were prepared in 2019. To track school readiness, E3 Alliance developed a measure known as Ready, Set K! that assesses students on their preparedness for kindergarten in four domains: social-emotional development, emerging literacy, language and communication, and math. Each year, kindergarten teachers in a sample of Central Texas classrooms assess the readiness of their new students. This indicator has remained relatively unchanged since the E3 Alliance began collecting data in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n School readiness has a lasting effect throughout a child\u2019s lifetime, influencing later academic success. The programs available to children impact their ability to begin kindergarten prepared to succeed. In their 2019 study, E3 found that 53% of students who attended a pre-kindergarten program were school ready, compared to 35% of students who did not attend one of these programs. In 2019, 77% of eligible 4-year olds in Central Texas enrolled in public pre-kindergarten. E3 has set a community goal of ensuring all eligible children enroll in a pre-k program by 2023. Students living in families with low-incomes are also less likely to enter school prepared. In 2019, 14% of children under 5 lived in families with incomes below the poverty level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click any of the section titles below to view related graph and information. Percent of Central Texas Children Entering Kindergarten School Ready by Economic Status Percent of Central Texas Children Entering Kindergarten School Ready, by Race & Ethnicity Percent of Central Texas Children Who Are Kindergarten Ready, by Pre-Kindergarten AttendancePercent of Central Texas Children Who Are Kindergarten Ready, by GenderPercent of Births to Mothers with No High School DiplomaPercent of Births to Mothers with No High School Diploma by Race\/Ethnicity in Travis CountyPercent of Children Under the Age of 5 Who Are Living Below the Poverty LevelFacts about Early Childhood Education in Austin\/Travis County<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 50% of Central Texas Children Enter Kindergarten School Ready Indicator: Percentage of children entering kindergarten school ready Goal: Increase the percentage of children entering kindergarten school ready Target: 70% by… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions\/1261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/canatx.org\/rb21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-School-readiness-main-graph.png\")
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Data Source: E3<\/sup> Alliance<\/a>
Data Considerations: This data is based on a sample of students from various Central Texas school districts. There are variations in the sample size and in districts represented in the data sample across years. This data was collected during assessments done over kindergarteners\u2019 first nine weeks of school. Children were assessed across four domains of child development: social\/emotional, language and communication, early literacy, and mathematics. The data is weighted to be representative of the Central Texas region. The only statistically significant change is the decrease in readiness in 2015 compared to prior years. *The jurisdiction for this data is the Austin Community College service area, which was changed slightly by the Texas State Legislature, marginally reducing the total population size.<\/p>\n\n\n\nthe story behind the indicator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
some local efforts to improve this indicator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\n\t\ta closer look at the story behind the indicator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
disproportionately impacted<\/h2>\n\n\n\n