The Chapter 1 Successful Schools project is the product of collaborative development efforts by the Florida Department of Education, the state's Chapter 1 Evaluation Advisory Panel, and Technical Assistance Centers contracted through the Educational Testing Service. This report covers the initial pilot phase of the Successful Schools project. It is a companion document to the summary report released in October 1994. It contains a number of technical papers on which research summaries, findings, and conclusions were based. It is organized to be generally consistent with the summary report, and contains the following sections: (1) introduction; (2) impact of school poverty on Florida's elementary schools; (3) conditions related to student achievement and learning environment; (4) successful high poverty schools; (5) data base profiles of participating schools; (6) school staff and parent perceptions of effective school components; (7) successful schools staff survey, technical report; (8) what parents did and did not say about pilot project schools; (9) parent survey responses; (10) interview analysis from the successful high poverty schools study; and (11) procedural analysis of on-site visits in the Successful Schools study. Twenty-five tables illustrate the discussions. (Contains 22 references.) (SLD)