Students who struggle with early reading skills tend to have more behavioral problems and are less likely to graduate high school than those who are skilled at decoding letters into sounds and translating those sounds into meaning.  

So which exceptional schools help students get started on the right path? 

Charters tended to be overrepresented on lists of exceptional schools, making up 7% of all schools in most samples but 11% of those that are exceptional. This is particularly clear in New York, where many of the highest-poverty, highest-performing schools are charters, led by Bronx Charter School for Excellence 4 Elementary and other schools in the borough. 

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