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The Kauffman School is a public, tuition-free charter school serving students in Kansas City, Missouri. In the 2016–17 school year, the Kauffman School enrolled 884 students in grades 5 through 10. Most (85 percent) of the students are low-income, and 90 percent are black or Hispanic. To measure the impact of the Kauffman School on its students, we identified a group of students in other Kansas City district and charter schools who had similar demographic characteristics and achievement at the end of 4th grade. We compared outcomes for those students to the outcomes of Kauffman students in 5th through 10th grades.