Benefits of Partnerships
Schools and communities form partnerships to serve a shared goal of helping students. Effective partnerships achieve that goal by creating programs that expand a school’s presence in the community and giving students greater access to resources inside and outside of the classroom. Effective partnerships are beneficial to the community, partners and schools in a number of ways.

Community Benefits

• Improved economic environment, increased ability to draw new businesses, and stimulated economic growth
• Lower dropout rates, lower crime rates, lower unemployment
• Provides for a more attractive county and community where businesses, organizations, faith-based organizations join in a united effort to improve the quality of the public educational institutions within the community.

Partner Benefits

• Enhanced community image
• Better prepared workforce
• Improved employee morale and training
• Increased customer and employee recruitment
  A sense of pride through engagement in the community

School Benefits

• Provides teachers with ideas for innovative approaches to learning
• Provides added human and financial resources to schools
• Reinforces schools’ message that education is important for life
• Improves employee morale because employees know that the community values what they do
• Improves attendance rates
• Improves Behavior
• Improves Graduation rates