What works in Dunkirk
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This profile covers practices recorded under this city name in 2 countries — check each practice's own page for its exact location.
Quality scores are 0–100 rubric scores; “strong evidence” reflects study design; adoptions count documented replications elsewhere. Know more
Evidence snapshot for Dunkirk
Dunkirk has implemented two major public interventions with documented results. The urban community made its bus network fare-free in September 2018 alongside a network redesign, achieving +65% weekday ridership and +125% weekend ridership within eight months, with nearly 50% of increased users reporting substitution of car trips; however, these gains cannot be separated from the simultaneous service improvements. In education, Dunkirk City School District in New York deployed an AI attendance system in 2025–26 that reduced chronic absenteeism from 38% to roughly 20–22%, though the district credits this improvement jointly to the AI tool, newly formed attendance committees, and instructional leadership, so the AI tool's independent effect cannot be isolated from available reporting.
Drawn from: Dunkirk's Free Buses — Fare-Free Network Launched Together with Frequency Upgrades · Dunkirk Free Buses (DK'BUS) — Fare-Free Network Redesign With +65% Weekday Ridership in Eight Months · Edia AI Attendance — Dunkirk City School District's Two-Way Texting System Cuts Chronic Absenteeism Nearly in Half
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Inclusiveness / equity +40 pts 83 here · 43 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +10 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Sustainability / continuity -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -38 pts 0 here · 38 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -40 pts 33 here · 74 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -47 pts 0 here · 47 average
Equity & inclusion -50 pts 0 here · 50 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Dunkirk. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Dunkirk's Free Buses — Fare-Free Network Launched Together with Frequency Upgrades · 67
Dunkirk Free Buses (DK'BUS) — Fare-Free Network Redesign With +65% Weekday Ridership in Eight Months · 62
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Karya — Fair-Wage AI Data-Work Platform Bringing Digital Income to Rural India · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
safe+natal — Comadrona-Designed Smartphone Checklist for Maternal Risk Screening in Rural Guatemala · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more