Current Year
In 2018-2019, 292 students took part in S2g programs.
80% of S2g’s families are low-income.
A S2g family’s average annual income is under $30,000. The median income is $25,600.
98% of S2g’s students are African-American and Latino; 2% are White.
80 students attended S2g’s summer enrichment program in 2017. It costs $850 to send a child to our summer program for 4 weeks. (All students are low-income and attend for free.)
More than 100 students were tutored one-on-one, at least 1 hour per week, by S2g’s trained tutors last year.
A total of 1,575 student visits to the library for Succeed2gether’s free tutoring program took place during the 2016-2017 school year, with an average of 47 tutees visiting per week.
We have more than 90 tutors. Tutor occupations include education, business, advertising, and engineering professionals, as well as retired teachers. We also have middle and high school honor students volunteering.
S2g students come from nine towns in Essex County, with the majority from Montclair. They include Bloomfield, East Orange, Belleville, Newark, and Orange.
Tutoring Improvement
We had 100% improvement of students in the tutoring program, based on returned surveys, teacher and parent reports.
Some of these were dramatic:
- We’ve had students who had failing grades in math when they arrived, and had achieved B averages in the next marking period. Kevin, a 6th grade student, was getting Ds when he started with us, but soon began getting 80s on homework and quizzes.
- Beginning reader and kindergartener Maximo was having trouble learning to read when he started, but was doing “fantastic” by the end of the year, his teacher said. Boris, a 2nd grader, developed more confidence in reading big words, said his teacher.
A teacher’s quote: my grades went up, etc.
Summer Improvement
S2g’s summer enrichment program students showed average national percentile improvements of 9% in language arts and 14% in math.
Workshops
We offer free workshops for parents, families, and students on a variety of topics, including:
- robotics
- drones
- app design
- coding
- early literacy education
- math
- art
- writing
- dealing with stress and anxiety in school
- transitioning to college
- college essay writing
- interview skills