Figure 1. Availability is not reach
Panel A shows the percent of U.S. public schools that offered tutoring in June 2025. Panel B shows the average percent of each school's students in high-dosage tutoring in October 2024, a different month with a different base number, so each panel answers its own question.
| Panel and measure | Estimate | Date | Unit and base number | Margin (standard error) | What it does not show |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Schools offering any tutoring | 85% | June 2025 | Percent of U.S. public schools | 0.9 points, for the 15% offering no tutoring | No delivered dosage or impact |
| A. Schools offering high-dosage tutoring | 42% | June 2025 | Percent of U.S. public schools | 1.2 percentage points | No student participation rate |
| B. Students receiving high-dosage tutoring across all schools | 8% | October 2024 | Average percent of enrolled students per public school | 0.5 percentage points | No link to June availability |
| B. Students receiving high-dosage tutoring within offering schools | 25% | October 2024 | Average percent of enrolled students within offering schools | 1.2 percentage points | No causal learning effect |
- Does not prove
- The four values are not a sequential funnel, an attrition rate, or evidence that current tutoring caused achievement changes.
- Scope
- School Pulse Panel estimates for U.S. public schools in two separate survey months
- Units
- Percent and percentage-point standard error
- Denominator
- Panel A uses public schools; Panel B uses average enrolled-student shares across all schools or offering schools
- Date
- June 2025 availability; October 2024 reach; source checked 1 September 2026
- Transformation
- The 85 percent estimate is the published complement of 15 percent no tutoring; no confidence intervals or cross-panel rates are computed
- Uncertainty
- School-reported weighted survey estimates from different months with different denominators
- Limitations
- The panels are descriptive, not linked to student outcomes, and draw no arrows between measures.
Sources
- School Pulse Panel tutoring results and official data workbook. National Center for Education Statistics. Published 2025-06-01; observed 2026-09-01.
- School Pulse Panel methodology. National Center for Education Statistics. Published 2024-07-01; observed 2026-09-01.