Quality Assessment Process

PAVE’s School Quality Initiative works to increase the number of schools that can demonstrate excellence in educating children from low-income families in Milwaukee.  Choice and Charter programs offer low-income families access to more schools in Milwaukee, but currently there are not enough schools that successfully prepare students for higher education and the workforce.      

PAVE's experience shows that successful schools have a fundamental capacity in four critical areas:

• financial operations

• proven systems that measure and support academic excellence

• strategic partnerships with parents and community organizations. 

PAVE’s significant experience in these areas will build the capacity for excellence in our partner schools.

Click here to access the document PAVE uses for School Assessments.

PAVE's Quality Assessment Process is not designed to turn around poor schools, or to "grade" schools on quality.  Rather, it is used to identify opportunities for investment to leverage growth and significant change in schools serving low income students in the city of Milwaukee.