First Baptist Church-West Community Services Association Inc

We offer the First Baptist-West Music & Tutoring Afterschool Program during the school year and the six-weeks Clara H. Jones Summer Institute. Both programs havean academic and fine arts focus and annually serve about 180 K-8th grade students, most of whom, 90%, are at-risk economically and/ or attend Title I high povertyschools. The Afterschool Program operates from 3-6pm Monday-Friday every day the local school system is in operation, as well as provides before care from 7-9am.It provides homework assistance, tutoring, instruction and weekly Fun Friday fine arts lessons utilizing licensed teachers, college graduates or those with out-ofschool-time experience. The Summer Institute operates from 7:30am-5:30am five days a week for six weeks. It provides Fine Arts lessons during the morning andacademic instruction in literacy, reading and social studies in the afternoon four days M-Th . On Fridays students take field trips in the area or stay on campus for onsitepresentations from such groups as the local library, fire department or police department. Fine arts lessons and accompanying instruments are provided in violin,piano, brass, art and dance. Ancillary programs include SMART High-Intensity Tutoring, Career Coaching for Middle School Students, full meals cooked on site,transportation and student group and family counseling. Summer results show an average pre- and post-test increase of 12% in literacy and math instruction, 70-80% score of proficient or developing in fine arts instruction and high parent survey marks. Afterschool results show an average 50-55% End-Of-Grade NC testresults compared to area school passing rates of 30-40%, as well as an average 350 Reading Lexile improvement score for SMART High-Intensity Tutoring students.