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"Of all major SES providers, Group Excellence is the only one that showed significant correlations between its students' recorded tutoring hours and students’ annual scale score gains on TAKS reading."
--DISD Data Update, Spring 2007
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Why choose Group Excellence?

Your income should not determine your outcome. Every school has a population of at-risk youth who need an extra push.   

The research shows that the Group Excellence tutoring and mentorship program is most successful with the kids who seem to be doing the worst - those at the bottom of the barrel who aren't even trying.  When a student scores 10% and 20% on a test, there’s something bigger going on. They aren't even trying.  

We take that population and show them school matters.  We turn on the light switch and get kids who weren't trying to try. Once you turn that light switch on for a kid, the whole world changes. Excellence matters.

 

Snapshots of Success

 

  • “Of all major SES providers, Group Excellence is the only one that showed significant correlations between its students’ recorded tutoring hours and students’ annual scale score gains on TAKS reading.”
    - DISD Data Update, Spring 2007
  • At one Dallas High School, 9th graders who completed the Group Excellence TAKS prep program increased their passing rates by 12 percentage points. These students scored higher than students in the rest of the school, area and district.
  • Math scores for 7th and 8th graders at a Dallas middle school shot up from 12 percent to 60%+ passing  only 1 year after activating Group Excellence tutors at the school.
  • According to the DISD Algebra Initiative report, Group Excellence has “strong benefits for most of the children served” and “other schools could clearly benefit from the expansion of the program.”
  • Group Excellence has the best attendance rate for tutoring programs in Dallas, 77%.
  • In one Dallas middle school, math scores shot up from 12 percent to 60%+ passing, only 8 months after activating the Group Excellence program

 

Notable Accomplishments

  • June 24, 2008 - Dallas Independent School District and Dallas Achieves! award Group Excellence with their certificate of appreciation for GE’s participation and contribution in the “City Wide Youth Mentoring Coalition.”
  • June 3, 2008 - The Texas Education Agency and School Improvement Resource Center name Carl Dorvil, Group Excellence President/CEO, to the Texas SES Task Force.
  • May 15, 2008 - Group Excellence awards 2 seniors at Samuel High School $4,000 scholarships.
  • March 3, 2007 - Group Excellence was presented the Pinnacle Award for outstanding work in the community by the Dallas County Peace Officers Association.