2025 CCSPP Executive Summary - Legislative Report
Executive summary from the 2025 California Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) legislative (leg.) report to the Governor, Legislature, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office.2025 Formative Evaluation of the California Community Schools Partnership Program
This report is required by California Education Code Section 8902(n), which requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an annual formative evaluation of the California Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) to the Governor and the Legislature. The report includes information on outcome data, services provided, areas of progress, challenges, best practices, and sustainability strategies to meet school improvement goals.
The CCSPP is a “whole child” approach that emphasizes the Four Pillars of Community Schools: integrated support services, family and community engagement, collaborative leadership, and extended learning opportunities. The Four Pillars support the four key conditions for learning, four cornerstone commitments, and four proven practices of community schools as shown in the California Community Schools Framework.
This third annual report provides information gathered from 2023–24 CCSPP grantees through annual reporting, 2024–25 activities of the statewide CCSPP technical assistance system, and the formative evaluation conducted by the Human Resources Research Organization. This report serves as the formative evaluation of the 2025 CCSPP as required by statute.
Through the CCSPP, the state has funded almost 2,500 school site grantees. Due to the timing of the release of data, this report describes the breadth and depth of statewide implementation at the school and local educational agency levels for Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 grantees during the first two years of program implementation and describes the comprehensive technical assistance system.
Overall, this report underscores the significance of community schools as an effective school transformation strategy. Promising early outcomes include reductions in chronic absenteeism and increases in credit accrual and California Assessment of Student Progress and Performance math scores in Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 grantees. Analyses suggest higher levels of family engagement and the engagement of historically marginalized students, and expanded whole-child supports are associated with improved student outcomes. The enthusiasm with which these community schools’ strategies have been embraced highlights the need for continuous support.
Report to the Governor and Legislature (DOCX)