Early Childhood CouncilApril 14, 2021

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PREK ENROLLMENT Laura Koenig Senior Director of Community Solutions, E3 Alliance © 2021 E3Alliance ELIGIBLE KINDERGARTNERS WITH PUBLIC PRE- K NEARLY 3X LIKELY TO BE SCHOOL READY Odds that Eligible Children Who Attended Public Pre-K are Kindergarten Ready Central Texas, 2013-14 to 2018-19 2.6 1X 2X 3X How Much More Likely to be Kindergarten Ready With Public Pre-K E3 Alliance analysis of children eligible for Public Pre-K from Ready,Set,K! weighted data Odds ratios from logistic regression of attending Public Pre-K vs. being at home or with relative, controlling for ethnicity and gender © 2021 E3Alliance PRE-K ENROLLMENT IN CENTRAL TEXAS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN PREVIOUS 5 YEARS Counts of Pre-K Students Enrolled in CTX, 2015 – Current* 14000 s t n e d u S t f o r e b m u N 12000 10000 8000 11,373 11,508 10,921 11,652 11,872 13,105 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Year 8,904 2021 Source: E3 Alliance analysis of snapshot enrollment data at the UT Austin ERC and current data collected directly from districts *Districts were included if current (2020-2021) enrollment data was available **Districts included in CTX aggregation: Austin, Del Valle, Hays, Lake Travis, Leander, Lockhart, Manor, Pflugerville, Hutto, Round Rock, San Marcos, Taylor, and Wayside ISD Source: E3 Alliance analysis of snapshot enrollment data at the UT Austin ERC and current data collected directly from districts *Districts were included if current (2020-2021) enrollment data was available **Districts included in CTX aggregation: Austin, Del Valle, Lake Travis, Leander, Lockhart, Manor, Pflugerville, Hutto, Round Rock, San Marcos, Taylor, and Wayside ISD © 2021 E3Alliance PREK ENROLLMENT DOWN ACROSS GROUPS - 34% - 37% © 2021 E3Alliance Source: E3 Alliance analysis of snapshot enrollment data at the UT Austin ERC and current data collected directly from districts *Districts were included if current (2020-2021) enrollment data was available **Districts included in CTX aggregation: Austin, Del Valle, Leander, Lockhart, Manor, Hutto, Round Rock, San Marcos, Taylor, and Wayside ISD CENTRAL TEXAS FALL PRE-K ENROLLMENT In Travis County Roughly 35% of our pre-K students are not enrolled compared to last year ≈ 3000 students • 70% of which are LatinX • 40% of which are English Learners • 90% are from low-income households © 2021 E3Alliance PREK ENROLLMENT PUSH • https://e3alliance.org/pre-k-in-central-texas/ • https://e3alliance.org/pre-k-for-educators/ © 2021 E3Alliance 6