Our Students
Our Network Schools primarily serve students from under-resourced communities who have historically lacked access to a high-quality education.
College Access & Success
We're on our way to achieving our long-term goal that 75% of our students will obtain a college degree.
Our Influence
The work we do in NYC public schools is having an impact not only on individual students and schools, but on the city’s public school system.Together with our partners at EL Education, we promote an expanded definition of student achievement that includes but is not limited to test scores, encompassing mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality student work.
Our Reach
Over our 30+ year history, we have changed the lives of more than 200,000 students.

We work with more than 75 NYC public schools each year.

This year, we served nearly 29,000 students and over 2,800 educators.
We offer an outstanding return on investment.
NYC spends over $20K per student annually. For an extra annual cost of only $350 per student, we’re able to achieve exceptional results.
DONATEThird Party Research
Crew Keeps Kids in School
A four-year study conducted by Metis Associates determined that chronic absentee rates at NYC Outward Bound Schools that were part of the study were less than half that of comparison schools. In other words, Crew has a statistically significant impact on student attendance. Read More
Improving Reading and Math
A 2013 Mathematica Policy Research study of three of our network middle schools found that the schools significantly boost students’ reading and math—students gained 7 months of additional learning growth in reading and roughly 10 months in math accumulated over three years. Read More
Text to College Success
Researchers from Hunter College and University of Iowa studied our Text-to-Success texting program revealed that students who receive Text-to-Success text messages are 55 percentage points more likely to be enrolled in college than students who do not, a huge impact. Read More