When I first arrived at PS 67 two years ago, I was the fourth principal the school had seen in five years and I had been offered the job just five days before the start of the school year.

The school was struggling: enrollment was declining, parents didn’t feel engaged, and not a single third grader had passed that year’s State ELA exam. I also knew that PS 67 served a high-needs student population. Many of my students live in either the Ingersoll or Walt Whitman Houses, or in shelters.

Now two years later, PS 67 has transformed and this kind of progress wouldn’t have been possible without the support we’ve received as a Renewal School.

These intense supports are working and the results speak for themselves. The third grade class in which no students passed the ELA exam? 20 percent of them graduated from PS 67 proficient in ELA. Across the entire school, we’ve doubled our scores in ELA and increased in Mathematics by nearly 10 percentage points.

Read the full article on a renewal school by By Kyesha Jackson, Principal of PS 67 at Bklyner.