Our Impact
Since it was founded in 2017, Read Up has brought unprecedented coordination to our community, uniting partners and achieving greater gains in early reading outcomes.
Our North Star
60% of North Texas third graders are reading on grade level by 2030.
The Read Up model works.
10x
Students who receive 10 hours of Read Up’s high-impact tutoring are 10 times more likely to show year-end improvement.*
Read Up students make big gains in reading.
Nearly all (95%) Read Up students increased their overall reading scores.**
+36%
Read Up helps students who start the furthest behind catch up.
While Read Up students begin the year far behind, they make meaningful progress by the end of the school year. In fact, the percentage of students meeting grade-level expectations increased from 4% to 40%—a 36-point jump.**
* Independent evaluation by The Addy Center on Research and Evaluation (CORE) at Southern Methodist University (SMU), 2022.
** Year-end results, Dallas ISD students in Read Up programming, 2024-25 school year.
