As part of the overall strategy for the Office of Student Pathways for SY25-26, FutureReadyNYC Quality and Student Experience have been identified as a top priority. Ensuring quality through the introduction of Key Implementation Measures (KIMs), as referenced in the SY25-26 School Allocation Memo No. 03, to monitor progress towards implementation of each core FRNYC component and the integrated delivery of all five components for each schools’ designated cohort size, as determined during FRNYC SY25-26 planning. These measures will further be used to inform and confirm a FRNYC designation process effective SY 25-26: schools that wish to be considered for FRNYC designation will need to be in good standing on the KIMs  in SY25-26.Coaching and support provided in partnership with schools will be aligned to school progress and success with the Key Implementation Measures.


Key Implementation Measures are defined as a finite set of measurable programmatic expectations that a school implementing FutureReadyNYC must meet in order to demonstrate quality implementation of FRNYC with fidelity.  By satisfactorily completing the FRNYC KIMs over the course of a school year, a school will earn designation as a FutureReadyNYC school, a distinction that indicates the quality and fidelity of the FRNYC programming that school is offering to students. 


The KIMs have been designed to better align to the following five principles: 

  • Clearly connected to effective, equitable, and sustainable FRNYC implementation for students
  • Limited to the most important measures needed to indicate success in overall FRNYC implementation for students
  • Measurable so progress and satisfactory performance can be assessed accurately
  • Derived from a specific and reliable data source (e.g., STARS) that allows for regular progress monitoring
  • Clearly connected to the broader goal of FRNYC for long-term transformational change for the high school experience in NYC public high schools

KIMs Checklist

A detailed month-by month KIMs checklist and calendar to guide school planning and implementation aligned to meeting the Key Implementation Measures will be available for SY25-26. These will be used in conjunction with your FRNYC coach to support school success across all five components.

Schools will receive monthly updates on their implementation performance, as well as formal documentation of this performance through four KIMs checkpoints throughout the school year (in October, February, April, and July). [See below for detailed KIMs list checkpoints / definitions / data sources]

Completing the KIMs

KIMs have either a yes/no criteria (i.e., event attendance, workbook completion), or are reported based on a percentage of students who have completed a given activity (i.e., student FRNYC enrollment, digital tool usage). The majority of the KIMs are calculated considering the number of students identified as FRNYC in STARS by being enrolled in your FRNYC sequence, thus timely student identification is critical to calculate the KIMs accurately. KIMs will be determined as “on track” or “off track” based on completion. 

Schools are expected to correct missed KIMs or they will continue to impact their performance evaluation. The only way to correct a missed KIM is to document completion of the missed KIM requirement in the appropriate data source. For example, if a school misses “All FRNYC 10th-12th graders have completed first 1:1 with college & career advisor,” they must document all students completing their first College & Career Advising 1:1 in STARS to correct it.

Schools will be able to review their KIM performance in the “[FRNYC] KIMs Dashboard”  tab in their pathways workbook, which will be updated after the 5th of every month with their latest status (e.g., the KIMs dashboard will be updated after October 5th to reflect performance through September). 

Schools who are unable to complete at least 80% of their KIMs will not achieve FRNYC designation, and will be evaluated by the Office of Student Pathways for continued participation in FRNYC. These schools may lose funding and FRNYC continuation if they are disengaged or otherwise unable to make meaningful improvement.  

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