A Research Report From EPIC

Round 4 of the Partnership Model: 2023-24 Outcomes Report

October 2025

This report examines the effect of the Partnership Model on student achievement in Round 4 Partnership schools. We then move to the intervention’s effect on two intermediate outcomes that districts targeted in their improvement plans—teacher turnover and student attendance. We leverage teacher and principal survey data to further explore potential mechanisms underlying our causal findings, but point interested readers to the 2023-24 Implementation Report for more on Partnership implementation in the first two intervention years. We conclude with implications for policy and practice.

Key findings include:

• Round 4 Partnership had no overall effect on math or ELA achievement in grades 4–8; however, we do find evidence of moderately sized math score gains in schools newly identified for Partnership for the first time in Round 4.
• Although Round 4 Partnership had no overall effect on student attendance-related outcomes, there were pockets of improvements that may have translated to elementary and middle school math score gains. Among 4th- through 8th-graders in newly identified schools, we find increased attendance, decreased absences, and decreased chronic absenteeism.
• Teacher turnover ticked upward across Partnership schools in the first implementation year. This increase was driven by within-district transfers across all schools and between-district transfers in newly identified Partnership schools.