Endorsement : Central Elementary #13
Parent Revolution is proud to endorse Celerity Educational Group for Central ES #13 as the best option to build an academically flourishing elementary school in the new building on Washington and Arlington. Although it is just four years old, Celerity has quickly built an impressive track record serving a broad variety of students, with an impressive focus on low-income families and English Language Learners. Their track record has been built with K-8 schools, which are even more challenging than the K-5 elementary school they will be taking on. Additionally, every one of their schools has opened as a K-6, making them uniquely qualified to handle the opening of an entire neighborhood school, with six grades, all at once. They are run by a former LAUSD elementary school principal, and are strongly committed to adult accountability and tracking student performance.
In contrast, nothing about the Local District’s proposal indicates any deviation from the LAUSD status quo. We see no reason to think that this new school will outperform the three surrounding elementary schools, which have an aggregate API score of only 685, and are disappointingly achieving only 30.5% proficiency in English Language Arts at the K-5 level. Celerity’s current schools are demonstrating every day that these children can do better than this, and given the opportunity, we believe they will turn Central ES #13 into the best elementary school in the neighborhood, helping students to be better prepared for middle school and beyond.
