Behavior and Social Emotional Learning
Classroom Behavior
The Kent Community Success objective for students’ classroom behavior is that 50% of regular attendees will improve classroom behavior. The data is collected through a teachery survey, administered by OSPI’s statewide 21st CCLC evaluation, the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The teacher survey includes several questions about students’ classroom behavior (Note that the teacher survey is available to complete for program participants, not only regular attendees). The survey is completed by school-day teacher or school-day staff for 21st CCLC students in grades 1-5. In 2024-25, between 76-93% of students had improved classroom behavior. Ninety-four percent (94%) of participants improved in coming to school, 93% improved in their participation in learning activities, 88% improved in alertness and focus, and 76% improved in staying focused. In 2024-25, the program far exceeded the objective for classroom behavior and also exceeded this objective in 2023-24. See Table 10.
Table 10: Changes in Students’ Classroom Behavior (From Teacher Survey)[1]
| Classroom Behavior | Needed to improve (2024-25) | Did improve (2024-25) | 2024-25 % who improved | 2023-24 % who improved |
| Alertness and focus | 16 | 14 | 88% | 71% (N=31) |
| Coming to school | 16 | 15 | 94% | 88% (N=24) |
| Participation in learning activities | 14 | 13 | 93% | 91% (N=23) |
| Staying focused | 17 | 13 | 76% | 77% (N=36) |
Social Emotional Learning
While social emotional learning was not a specific objective, the Kent Community Success program has an overarching goal of supporting students’ social emotional learning. Relevant data is gathered via the youth survey of 21st CCLC program participants, administered by AIR (Note that the youth survey is administered to program participants in grades 4-12, not only regular attendees). The survey includes a range of items about how the afterschool program has helped participants, and youth respondents select up to three areas where the program has helped them the most. Students at all three sites responded to the survey.
For Cohort 18 (as a whole), 78 students responded to the survey (at Mill Creek, 40 students responded, at Neely-O’Brien, 11 students responded, and at River Ridge, 27 students responded). Students indicated that the program helped them:
- Make new friends (65% of respondents)
- Find out what I like to do (40% of participants)
- Feel good about myself (31% of respondents)
- Find out what I’m good at doing (29% of respondents)
[1] 2024-25 data included teacher surveys from both River Ridge and Neely-O’Brien. 2023-24 data included Neely-O’Brien only.