TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Revisions to the Excellence Boys Charter School’s Charter in 2011-12 II. Total Expenditures and Administrative Expenditures Per Pupil in 2011-12

III. Note Regarding Audited 2011-12 Financial Statements

IV. Board Members’ Financial Interest Disclosure Forms

V. Enrollment and Retention Targets

Section I

REVISIONS TO EXCELLENCE BOYS CHARTER SCHOOL’S CHARTER IN 2011-12

During the 2011-12 school year, Excellence Boys Charter School revised its charter to co-locate its high school grades with Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School and Kings Collegiate Charter School. Excellence Boys Charter will add students to the co-located high school as well as combine the high school program and curriculum with that Williamsburg Collegiate and Kings Collegiate. This revision was approved by the SUNY Board of Trustees on April 24, 2012. Graduating 8th grade students from the three schools will matriculate into the co-located high school, called “Uncommon Charter High School.” The three students will be fully merged into one student body; students will comingle within classes and no distinction will be made between Excellence Boys Charter students, Williamsburg Collegiate students or Kings Collegiate students. As part of this revision, Excellence Boys Charter revised the following sections of its charter:

Revised Charter Attachments & Exhibits o Renewal Attachment N – Fiscal and Facilities o Charter Attachment 28 – Graduation Requirements o Charter Attachment 34 – Dress Code o Charter Attachment 35 – Handling Complaints o Charter Attachment 36 – Health Services o Charter Attachment 37 – Freedom of Information Law o Charter Attachments 50-53 – Facilities o Charter Attachment 54 – Transportation o Renewal Exhibit 7 – Enrollment o Renewal Exhibit 11 – Accountability Plan o Renewal Exhibit 12 – Staffing Plan o Renewal Exhibit 15 – Bylaws o Renewal Exhibit 17a – Grades 5-8 Budget o Renewal Exhibit 17b – Grades 9-12 Budget o Renewal Exhibit 22 – Assessment Schedule o Renewal Exhibit C – 9-12 Curriculum Crossovers

Additional Exhibits: o Exhibit 1: New York State Test Results o Exhibit 2: UCHS Student Handbook o Exhibit 3: Department of Education Survey o Exhibits 4: Memorandum of Understanding o Exhibit 5: Co-Location Board Resolutions o Exhibit 6: EBCS Board Minutes: December 7, 2011 o Exhibit 7: Grades K-8 Floor Plan o Exhibit 8: Grades 9-12 Floor Plan o Exhibit 9: EBCS Insurance Certificate o Exhibit 10: UCHS Insurance Certificate

Section II TOTAL EXPENDITURES AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURES PER CHILD 2011-12

• Total expenditures per pupil: $14,503.54 • Administrative expense per pupil: $3,591.45

Section III

AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2011-12 We will provide audited financial statements for the 2011-12 school year before November 1, 2012

Section IV

BOARD MEMBERS’ FINANCIAL INTEREST DISCLOSURE FORMS

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DisclosureofFinancialInterestbyaNewYorkCharterSchoolBoardofTrusteesMemberAnnualReport2011‐2012

*Note:ThisDisclosureisapublicrecord,butasteriskeddatafieldswillberedacted.

1. TrusteeName(print)EvanRudall

2. CharterSchoolNameExcellenceBoysCharterSchool

3. CharterAuthorizerEntitySUNY

4. HomeAddress*716ValleyRoad,Montclair,NJ07043

5. BusinessAddress* 261West35thStreet,15thFloor,NewYork,NY10001

6. DaytimePhone*917‐848‐3200

7. E‐MailAddress*evanrudall@gmail.com

8. Listallpositionsheldonboard(e.g.,chair,treasurer,parentrepresentative)

9. Isthetrusteeanemployeeoftheschool?____Yes__x__NoIfYes,pleaseprovideadescriptionofthepositionyouholdandyourresponsibilities,yoursalaryandyourstartdate.

10. Is the trustee an employee or agent of themanagement company or institutional partner of thecharterschool?__x__Yes____NoIfYes,pleaseprovideadescriptionofthepositionyouholdandyourresponsibilities,yoursalaryandyourstartdate.

IwasCEOofUncommonSchoolsduringthe2011‐12schoolyear.MystartdatewasAugust2005.

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11. Identifyeachinterest/transaction(andprovidetherequestedinformation)thatyouoranyofyourimmediatefamilymembersoranypersonswholivewithyouinyourhousehaveheldorengagedinwiththecharterschoolduringthetimeyouhaveservedontheboard,andinthesix‐monthperiodpriortosuchservice.Iftherehasbeennosuchfinancialinterestortransaction,writeNone.PleasenotethatifyouansweredYestoQuestion2‐4above,youneednotdiscloseagainyouremploymentstatus,salary,etc.

Date(s) NatureofFinancial

Interest/TransactionStepstakentoavoidaconflictofinterest,(e.g.,didnotvote,didnotparticipatein

discussion)

Nameofpersonholdinginterestorengagingin

transactionandrelationshiptoyourself

None

12. Identify each individual, business, corporation, union association, firm, partnership, committeeproprietorship,franchiseholdingcompany,jointstockcompany,businessorrealestatetrust,non‐profitorganization,orotherorganizationorgroupofpeopledoingbusinesswiththeschoolandinwhichsuchentity,during the timeofyour tenureasa trustee,youand/oryour immediate familymemberorperson living inyourhousehada financial interestorother relationship. If youareamember,director,officeroremployeeofanorganizationformallypartneredwiththeschoolthatisdoingbusinesswiththeschoolthroughamanagementorservicesagreement,please identifyonlythenameoftheorganization,yourpositionintheorganizationaswellastherelationshipbetweensuchorganizationandtheschool.Iftherewasnofinancialinterest,writeNone.

Organizationconductingbusinesswiththeschool

Natureofbusinessconducted

Approximatevalueofthebusinessconducted

NameofTrusteeand/orimmediatefamilymemberofhouseholdholdingan

interestintheorganizationconductingbusinesswiththeschoolandthenatureof

theinterest

StepsTakentoAvoidConflictofInterest

Uncommon Schools  

Management Organization   

  Evan Rudall, paid employee of Uncommon Schools.  

I do not participate in votes about the Uncommon Schools/ Excellence management agreement. 

Excellence Academies 

Raises funds for and 

  Evan Rudall, received stipend from EAF 

I do not serve as a trustee or 

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______________________________________________________________ 7/12/2012 Signature Date

Foundation  supports Excellence 

make decisions for Excellence Academies Foundation. 

Section V

ENROLLMENT AND RETENTION TARGETS During the 2011-12 student recruitment season, in alignment with our school’s mission to serve all students from our surrounding communities, Excellence Boys, in coordination with other schools within the Uncommon Schools New York City region, went to great lengths to ensure that our student recruitment outreach efforts targeted students with disabilities, students who are English language learners and students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. Excellence Boys and Uncommon Schools NYC specifically targeted these high priority student groups, and also continued to work to ensure that all NYC students had the information and access required to pursue an Uncommon education. Student Outreach Overview All 11 Uncommon Schools in New York City that recruited new students during the 2011-12 school year worked together on community outreach efforts. By combining our efforts and sharing information about all of our schools at one time, we were able to reach far more students in New York City than we would have if our schools worked independently. Our schools have a combined application that allows a family to apply to multiple Uncommon Schools with just one application. This makes it easier for a family to learn about and access all of our schools and allows our schools to reach a broader population of students. Ultimately, school leaders are responsible for recruitment at their schools, but by collaborating, meeting regularly, dividing labor, and sharing best practices, we have been able to significantly increase the overall number of families that each school can reach. One of our largest efforts to reach prospective students is through multiple mailings that we send out throughout the student recruitment season. The New York City Department of Education provides lists of students by current grade and zip code to Vanguard Direct, Inc. Excellence Boys chooses the zip codes near our schools that have the highest number of FRPL and ELL students and then partners with Vanguard to send a mailing to those families. The final list includes close to 20,000 families of rising Kindergarten or 5th grade students. The mailing includes an application in English and Spanish as well as our color brochure. Uncommon Schools NYC ran both English and Spanish language advertisements in the New York City Housing Authority Journal. On their website, the NYCHA Journal says they are “hand-delivered to each of the 178,000 apartments in NYCHA’s 334 public housing developments throughout the five boroughs. It also is distributed to more than 10,000 NYCHA employees, and mailed to elected officials and community leaders.” It is also available through email subscription. Students with Disabilities In 2011-12, Excellence Boys heightened its focus on recruiting students with disabilities by increasing recruiting efforts at organizations serving students with disabilities and creating recruiting materials that more explicitly targeted students with disabilities. Using a list created by NYSED, Excellence Boys identified and targeted all preschools that are certified to offer services to students with disabilities in our school communities. Head Starts were included in this search, as they are mandated to serve a student body with at least 10% students with disabilities. We

identified a total of 15 preschools that were high priority for our schools due to their location and student population. These high priority sites then received calls, visits and recruitment materials. In addition, we identified another 17 Head Starts and daycares. While slightly farther away from our schools each center still received a call from our admissions office to introduced Uncommon Schools NYC as well as an offer to have an Uncommon Schools NYC staff member visit the preschool in person to provide more information. Those 17 preschools also received a mailing that contained brochures, flyers and Kindergarten and 5th grade applications. To increase the likelihood that families of students with disabilities who received recruiting materials would submit an application and to ensure that families of students with disabilities knew that their students were eligible for our schools, we updated the language in all our recruiting materials to encourage families of students with disabilities to apply. We ensured that all our outreach and application materials clearly stated that all students, including those with disabilities, were eligible to apply. This language appeared on our enrollment websites, Kindergarten and 5th grade lottery applications, waitlist applications for all grades, the brochures that were distributed to 600 organizations and mailed to 20,000 Brooklyn families, as well as in the presentations given at our 10 information sessions. Our admissions brochure also explicitly mentioned our high quality intervention programs that our schools offer of tutoring and small group instruction. Our admissions office and school based staff were trained on this question so that they could answer the concerns of any families of potential applicants with special needs who called in. English Language Learners In the 2011-2012 school year, Excellence Boys put a strong emphasis on recruiting students who are English language learners, and particularly, given the neighborhood in which our school is located, Spanish-speaking populations. To plan our outreach efforts, we used Census tract data to create maps showing the distributions of the populations of the top five most spoken languages after English. We then located the highest density areas of these non English speaking populations near our schools and created two community canvassing walks for each Uncommon School to take that traveled through those neighborhoods. On the walks, school staff visited local stores, organizations, and apartment buildings and hung flyers and left brochures and applications in English and in Spanish at each location. In addition, school staff would talk to residents along the way (in English and in Spanish) to spread the word about our schools. Additionally, all outreach materials created across our schools were distributed in Spanish and English. Materials that were produced and disseminated in English and Spanish included but were not limited to our enrollment website and online lottery and waitlist applications, paper lottery applications, full color brochures and flyers, posters, informational packets, and tear away information sheets. We identified 261 high priority local community organizations to reach out to based on factors including location, age group served and proximity to high non English speaking populations. Each organization received a call from our admissions office by a fluent Spanish speaking staff member and a mailing including brochures, flyers and applications in both English and Spanish. In addition to these high priority organizations, we met with the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, a non-profit referral service which helps Hispanic families find daycares, schools and enrichment programs for their students, to ensure that they were aware of our schools for an option for our families and provided them with outreach materials that they could share with the families that they serve.

A Spanish speaking staff member was available at our admissions office by phone and email 40 hours a week. Not only was she available to take incoming calls, she would also follow up with all Spanish speaking families to encourage them to send in documentation to qualify for all admissions preference to ensure they had the best possible chance of acceptance into our schools. We also know that families of our current ELL students are our best resource to reach new ELL students. All families at our schools receive applications to distribute to family and friends in English and Spanish. Families of ELL students would receive extra applications in Spanish. In addition, each school identified families of ELL students and families of non-ELL students where some Spanish is spoken at home who were interested in volunteering to support student admissions efforts. These families met with a school staff member and learned about a variety of ways that they could get the word out about our schools and distribute applications to others. These families were also encouraged to speak at their churches, or other local organizations to spread the word about our schools. Uncommon Schools NYC also ran Google ads in Spanish so that families searching for information about schools in New York City in Spanish would see ads for our school and be directed to our Spanish webpages and applications. Each applicant, whether they were selected in the lottery or placed on the waitlist, received a letter in both Spanish and English telling them the results of the lottery and the next steps to enrolling in the school. Students Eligible for Free and Reduced Price Lunch Excellence Boys places a high priority on recruiting students who qualify for free and reduced price lunch. Similar to our strategy for reaching new ELL families, we believe that enlisting the help of the families of FRPL students who are currently in our schools, is one of the most effective ways of recruiting new FRPL students. All of our schools send home Kindergarten and 5th grade lottery applications with all their current students. In addition, schools ask families who are interested in volunteering further to assist with hanging flyers in their neighborhoods, participating in phone banks to local organizations or speaking at churches or other organizations that they are involved with. We also know that many of our FRPL students currently reside in New York City Housing Authority sites. In 2011-12 Excellence Boys increased its recruiting focus on NYCHA sites. Each of our 11 schools was assigned at least one and in most cases several New York City Housing Authority site that was within close proximity to their school. The school would then visit these sites to hang flyers, leave applications and speak with residents to ensure that residents of these locations were aware of our schools and the necessary information and materials needed to apply. Finally, Excellence Boys provides admissions preference in their Kindergarten lotteries for students who qualify for free or reduced price lunch. Families who qualify receive a preference that increases their chances of acceptance over students who do not qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Families who qualify for SNAP (food stamps) or TANF (public assistance) benefits, or live in New York City Housing Authority housing are given an additional preference that further increases their chances for acceptance. 2012-2013 In the 2012-2013 school year, Excellence Boys plans to build upon its efforts from 2011-12 and put into action a number of new initiatives to continue to recruit more students with disabilities, English language learners, and students qualifying for Free and Reduced Priced lunches.

Uncommon Schools NYC will continue to centralize recruitment efforts across all of our schools in order to maximize our efforts and reach as many families as possible. We will continue to send at least two mailings through Vanguard that will reach close to 20,000 families as well as an additional mailing targeting families where English is not the home language, we will continue to flyer in communities that are predominantly low income and to ensure that we flyer in areas with high populations of families where English is not the primary language. We will continue to work with community organizations who serve predominately low income and non English speaking individuals. We will also continue to find ways to partner with the families of our current students to reach their communities and allow the parents to share their experiences with our schools. In addition to the many efforts we have made in previous years, we plan to work to identify new organizations who can help us access these target populations. Beyond recruitment specific efforts, Uncommon Schools NYC will expand its community outreach efforts in all its school communities in 2012-13. Outreach and community development will be a year round priority for our schools, and we plan to hold more events to help inform school communities about the work that we are doing and the opportunities that exist within our schools. This includes partnering with local elected officials and community members and holding larger scale events that are open to the general public as well as the families that we serve directly. Retention In accordance with our mission to prepare students for college, we want all of our students, including FRPL, ELL and students with disabilities, to stay with us through high school graduation. We will continue to analyze our data to ensure that we are serving students from these populations as effectively as all other students, and keeping them in our schools in the same numbers.