In addition to language and cognitive skills, communication skills, and general knowledge, the EDI measures emotional maturity, which 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 and health in preteen and teen years and to long-term physical and mental health and wellbeing in adulthood.
Marked discrepancies persist by race in student outcomes as 22.6% of Asian students and 21.9% of white students assessed as "Very Ready" compared to 11.7% of Black students and 15.7% of Hispanic or Latino/a students.
By gender, 20.8% of female students assessed as "Very Ready" compared to 12.7% of male students. For additional information on early childhood, visit ReadyKidSA.com.
SA2020's data by race requires an understanding of historic and systemic racial inequity. Learn more at SA2020.org/racialequity. SA2020 uses sex and race identifiers from each source. This means across the indicators you may encounter various ways in which a particular population is identified. SA2020 promotes best practices in collecting demographic data. Review our most recent Recommendations for Collecting Inclusive Demographic Data.
Increase the percentage of students developmentally "very ready" for Kindergarten to 30% (30% by 2030)
| Year | Value | Margin of Error |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | -- | |
| 2011 | -- | |
| 2012 | -- | |
| 2013 | -- | |
| 2014 | -- | |
| 2015 | 24% | |
| 2016 | 24% | |
| 2017 | 24% | |
| 2018 | 24% | |
| 2019 | -- | |
| 2020 | 18% | |
| 2022 | 17% |
Students Developmentally "Very Ready" for Kindergarten
Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems; Early Development Instrument (EDI)
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.
