•Demonstrate higher academic achievement

•Are less likely to repeat a grade

•Less likely to require special education classes

•More likely to graduate from high school

•More likely to enroll in college

•Less likely to participate in criminal activity during their juvenile or adult years

•Less likely to be victims of child maltreatment or neglect

•As adults, are less likely to be unemployed

•More likely to have  higher earnings than similar students who do not participate in Pre-K

•Less likely to depend on public assistance, become teenage parents, or endanger their health by smoking