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Key Findings

1. During the 2015–2016 school year and the following summer, Big Lift served approximately one-third of the entering 2016–2017 kindergarten class in four Big Lift participating districts.
2. In the 2016–2017 school year, 50 percent of kindergartners in Big Lift districts scored in the kindergarten-ready range on a school readiness assessment at the start of the year.
3. When comparing demographically similar children, Big Lift preschoolers were more likely to be kindergarten-ready than children who did not go to preschool at all.Big Lift preschoolers and non–Big Lift preschoolers were equally likely to start school kindergarten-ready.

The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool–third grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California, launched in 2012 by the County of San Mateo, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), and the San Mateo County Office of Education (SMCOE). The initiative aims to boost third-grade reading proficiency through a set of coordinated activities, called "pillars": (1) High-Quality Preschool; (2) Summer Learning; (3) School Attendance; and (4) Family Engagement.