The AVANCE Head Start program provides comprehensive early childhood education and family support services to low-income families with children 3 to 5 years of age. One of the main purposes of Head Start is to help children from low-income backgrounds succeed in kindergarten and beyond. This report examines the academic performance of AVANCE Houston Inc. students, including those dually enrolled in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), by comparing their HISD kindergarten academic performance to the performance of demographically similar peers. Specifically, this study provides a comparison of the 2012-2013 Aprenda 3 and Stanford 10 test scores of 329 kindergarten students who were enrolled in AVANCE Houston Inc. in 2011-2012 to the scores of kindergarten students who were enrolled in HISD prekindergarten that were matched by age, gender, ethnicity, economic status, limited English proficiency (LEP), and special education status using Propensity Score Matching analysis (PSM; Rosenbaum & Rubin, 1983). Findings suggest that the performance of kindergarteners who attended AVANCE was comparable to the performance of kindergarteners who attended HISD prekindergarten after controlling for these demographic variables. Student performance on the Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI) and Tejas LEE was also assessed to determine the percentage of AVANCE students entering the district as developed in their phonemic awareness, a predictor of success in learning to read (University of Texas System/Texas Education Agency, 2010).