Achievement First

Achievement First
65-1203744[1]
HeadquartersNew Haven, Connecticut
ServicesCharter school management
Websitewww.achievementfirst.org
34 schools (2017)

Achievement First is a charter school network in the United States. Achievement First operates schools in Connecticut (beginning with Amistad Academy in New Haven in 1999 along with other schools in New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford), New York City (beginning in 2005 with schools in Brownsville, Bushwick, Crown Heights and East New York) and Rhode Island.

Achievement First was one of the charter school organizations helping to establish Relay School for Education (formerly CUNY's Teacher U).[2][3]

Achievement First runs 41 schools that serve approximately 12,500 students.[4]

  1. ^ "Achievement First, Inc. Form 990 2015". ProPublica. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ^ Charters get own education graduate school By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter February 15, 2011 NY Post
  3. ^ Green, Elizabeth (14 February 2011). "A new graduate school of education, Relay, to open next fall". Chalkbeat New York. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Can a 'No Excuses' Charter Teach Students to Think for Themselves?". The New York Times. 2018-01-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-12.