In addition to language and cognitive skills, communication skills, and general knowledge, the Early Development Instrument (EDI) measures emotional maturity. This includes the ability to think before acting–a balance between too fearful and too impulsive, an ability to deal with feelings at the age-appropriate level, and empathetic responses to other people's feelings. There is strong evidence linking social-emotional health to subsequent school success, health in preteen and teen years, and long-term physical and mental health and well-being in adulthood.
Increase the percentage of students developmentally "very ready" for Kindergarten to 30% (30% by 2030)
Year | Value | Margin of Error |
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2010 | -- | |
2011 | -- | |
2012 | -- | |
2013 | -- | |
2014 | -- | |
2015 | 24% | |
2016 | 24% | |
2017 | 24% | |
2018 | 24% | |
2019 | -- | |
2020 | 18% | |
2022 | 17% | |
2023 | 16% |
Students Developmentally "Very Ready" for Kindergarten
Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems; Early Development Instrument (EDI)
306 census tracts in Bexar County
The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a population measure of how young children are developing through the use of five domains: 1) physical health and wellbeing, 2) social competence, 3) emotional maturity, 4) language and cognitive skills, and 5) communication skills and general knowledge. EDI is part of a national initiative called Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems (TECCS), developed to help match proven school readiness solutions with unique needs faced by communities. The local EDI data is created by the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County. The trend analysis for the set of census tracts includes 306 tracts as of 2020.
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020