Our Impact

We are determined to make Washington, DC, the first public education system where race and income do not predict a student’s ability to thrive.

Our coalition pushes the boundaries of the possible, designing and implementing research-based interventions that move the needle for DC’s most vulnerable students. We measure the impact of our work in terms of students reached, sites launched, and system-level change, aiming to cultivate the conditions that allow the research-based innovations we support to take root and thrive.

The introduction of tutoring into the ecosystem is one of the most seismic shifts in instructional time that I’ve seen in my career.”

-Washington, DC, State Superintendent of Education (2021-2024), Dr. Christina Grant

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Our 2024 Impact Report

During the 2023–24 school year, we reached a milestone of serving more than 16,000 students in DC and embedding high-impact tutoring in schools across the city. What began as an urgent COVID recovery initiative has become a lasting pillar of DC’s education strategy—and we are proud to be the quiet engine driving it forward.

Explore the full 2024 Impact Report to see what we’ve learned—and how we’re scaling a sustainable, equitable tutoring movement in DC.

We began as CityTutor DC, incubated at CityBridge Education to implement and scale high-impact tutoring programming with schools. In 2025, we rebranded to CitySchools Collaborative to reflect our programmatic and geographic expansion.

See the history of our impact in prior reports:

Our Coalition

CitySchools Collaborative supports 100+ schools, tutoring providers, local universities, community-based organizations, and government stakeholders to improve outcomes for DC’s most vulnerable students and communities. CitySchools Collaborative recruits, trains, and coaches partners citywide to launch and expand HIT programs and implement strategic staffing models.

In Summer 2021, 300 students received tutoring as schools supported by CityTutor piloted HIT

In school year 21-22, students returned to the classroom, and new partnerships were formed on an ongoing basis as we scaled HIT to serve more students. An additional 5,300 students received HIT throughout the year.