Our Impact

Read30inc is committed to improving the quality of life and breaking the cycle of poverty for our families by providing ample academic support and enrichment opportunities that guide our students through high school graduation and beyond.

We are able to do this by establishing meaningful connections throughout the community,

The Challenge

Gaps of Opportunity, Resources, and Achievement

Today’s students from marginalized communities are forced to deal with gaps of opportunity, resources, and achievement. Given the current state of the City of Jacksonville with 54% of children in Duval County living in poverty and 99% of Jacksonville City School District children qualifying for free lunch, the City of Jacksonville ranks in the nation’s top ten mid-size cities in poverty. This makes it much more difficult for students from the Jacksonville School District to obtain experiences that support their success and achievement in high school, college, and the workforce.

Summer Learning Loss

Research demonstrates that students, especially from 3rd to 8th grade, the age-range at the core of our program, lose anywhere from 20-50% of the math and reading skills that they learn during the school year over the two months of summer vacation.

This phenomenon is called summer learning loss, and it is one of the primary causes of the persistent academic achievement gap that exists for the student population we serve. We are able to combat this challenge by providing students with outstanding staff, curriculum, and enrichment opportunities for six weeks out of their summer.

Without programs like Read30inc, under-resourced students experience a substantial and cumulative erosion of reading that can ultimately leave them years behind their peers. Read30inc has become a valuable asset in providing an extended learning to students who would not otherwise have opportunities for summer enrichment like vacations and summer camp.

Our program is determined to provide the things that increased funding in education, summer school, and recreation programs have not been able to;  quality academic experiences that enrich a student’s life over the course of consecutive summers.

We believe in fostering strong relationships through the development and impact of a curriculum deeply rooted in best practices and educational research at the Warner School of Education.

Our Results.

On average, we see an improvement by 1 to 3 reading levels in our students. Keeping true to our mission, these 1-3 levels will account for all and more of the percentage of summer learning loss that we know our students would face without this kind of academic intervention, and leave our students five to six months ahead of where they would have been without Read30in.