Supporting Students Beyond the School Day

Results from the Afterschool Alliance provider survey on high-impact student supports.

To better understand the landscape of high-impact student supports nationwide, the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) Support Hub at the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center (EGC) collaborated with the Afterschool Alliance to survey a convenience sample of out-of-school time (OST) providers about the extent to which they offer specific high-impact student supports in their programs, as part of a larger tracking survey fielded by the Afterschool Alliance.

62% of OST providers who responded to the survey reported offering student supports through at least one of the roles that the NPSS focuses on (high-intensity tutoring, mentoring, student success coaching, college and career advising or postsecondary transition coaching, and wrap around services that connect students and families to community resources). Nearly half of providers that responded to the survey offer mentoring and about a third offer wrap around services. Two in ten offer college and career advising or postsecondary transition coaching, student success coaching, and/or high intensity tutoring. The survey results indicate significant growth in the number of adults providing these supports in out-of-school time programs during the 2023-24 school year when compared to the previous (2022-23) school year. They also indicate significant demand for these types of evidence-based student supports during out-of-school time among those that offer them.

The survey results indicate that government funding may have played a key role in providers’ abilities to provide NPSS supports, as providers with COVID relief funding, 21st Century Community Learning Center funding, AmeriCorps funding, and state government funds were more likely to report offering NPSS supports than those that did not have this funding.