Carbondale is pursuing a simple promise: improve life by improving what children experience in and around school.
Many of our students arrive each morning carrying experiences shaped by poverty, language access, and housing instability. These barriers affect attendance, readiness, confidence, academic growth, and especially literacy. Our families want more for their children — and they have for generations. What’s been missing is a coordinated system that meets families where they are.
CES95’s full-service community school model connects schools, families, partners, and supports into one strategy across all four campuses.
A comprehensive approach where academics, well-being, strong families, and enrichment activities are interconnected, rather than separate concerns.
Prioritizing insights from Carbondale’s educators, families, and local organizations, ensuring decisions are community-driven, not externally mandated.
Backed by extensive research, this model has consistently demonstrated significant improvements in student attendance, literacy skills, and active family participation.
Reading is the foundation for learning, critical thinking, opportunity, and full participation in community life. We center literacy because it unlocks everything else.
Aligned literacy and community school practice across every CES95 campus.
Local supporters who have already stepped up to launch the bridge campaign.
Two years of growing trust, participation, and partnership with families.
A sudden funding gap threatens to interrupt programs that took two years to build. Local bridge support keeps coordinators, navigators, and literacy specialists in place while we secure long-term, diversified funding.
