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This article summarizes the results of a 5-year national evaluation of the first stage of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s initiative. The article focuses on two contrasting strategies to small-school reform: starting new small high schools, and converting large schools into smaller learning communities. For each strategy, it reports on the progress of the reform in its first several years, student outcomes, and key implementation factors that shape progress and outcomes for start-up and conversion schools.